OcToBER, 1914.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 313 
AWARD OF MERIT. 
Cypripedium Fairri-tisii (Farrieanum X Curtisii), a good large flower, 
showing both parents, from Messrs. A. J. Keeling & Sons. 
CULTURAL CERTIFICATE. 
To Mr. G. Weatherby, gr. to Z. A. Ward, Esq., for Cattleya Atalanta, 
carrying 17 flowers on one spike. 
caer 
ea genus Spiranthes is very widely diffused through both the eastern 
and western hemispheres, and is represented in Britain by two species, 
S. estivalis and S. autumnalis, the latter being frequently met with on open 
SPIRANTHES GRACILIS. Keers 
Fig. 40. SPIRANTHES GRACILIS. 
downs during the late summer months. The genus.is more numerously 
“Presented in North America, where the subject of our figure, Spiranthes 
sracilis, Beck, has a wide diffusion. The flowers are white, with some 
Breen in the centre, and are borne in a continuous spiral, which winds 
round and round the floral axis, as seen in the figure, ie 
qWaint appearance. It is from this character that the genus takes Its name. 
it a very 
