78 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (May-June, gt. 
Johnson was an enthusiast in Orchid culture and a good observer, and 
such qualities usually make for success. 
SiR FRANK Crisp, V.M.H.—This well-known and enthusiastic horti- 
culturist passed away on April 2gth, in his seventy-sixth year, after an 
illness of about a fortnight. A man of many activities, Sir Frank was the 
possessor of a beautiful garden at Friar Park, Henley-on-Thames, in which 
he built one of the most remarkable rockeries in existence. On this, among 
a mulitude of alpine and other plants, he found room for a number of 
interesting hardy Orchids, arnong which we recall the chaste and beautiful 
Orchis maculata alba, figured in O.R., xxiv. p. 200. Sir Frank also grew 
an interesting collection of tropical Orchids, which appealed to him quite’ 
as much for their quaint structure and appearance as for their beauty, and 
‘the deceased had a keen appreciation of both qualities, as will. be apparent 
to everyone who has fully explored the famous rockery at Friar Park. Sir 
Frank was for many years Treasurer of the Linnean Society and Honorary 
Secretary of the Royal Microscopical Society, and at the time of his death 
President of the Horticultural Club. He was awarded the Victoria Medal 
of Horticulture by the R.H.S. early in the present year for his services to: 
Horticulture. : 
S ME six years ago Epipactis viridiflora, Rchb., was added to the British 
flora by Messrs. J. A. Wheldon and W. G. Travers, {rom .specimens. 
gathered on the Lancashire coast (Journ. Bot., 1913, pp. 307, 343), and more 
recently it has been recorded from the Isle of Wight by T. and T. A. 
Stephensen (1918, p. 1), and from near Guildford by Col. M. J. Godfery 
(1919, p. 37). More recently Col. Godfery has suggested (191g, p. 80) that 
the plant long known in Britain as E. media is identical with E. viridiflora,. 
and that it differs from the. original E. media, Fries. The history of the 
British E. media is very fully given by Col. Godfery, and in a letter he 
suggests a further comparison with the Continental plant. 
The fact is, the original Epipactis media, Fries, is a mixture, as we have 
long known. It was described in 1839 (Fries, Nov. Fl. Suec., Mant. ii.,. 
p- 54), the author basing it upon three distinct plants, which he calls a, B, 
and c, as follows: “a, floribus albis,” based on Serapias microphylla of 
Dutch botanists, not of Ehrh., and S. latifolia var. albens, Wahl. Fl. Swec.,. 
P- 589; “‘B, floribus viridibus,” based on S. viridiflora, Rchb. Ic. Bot.,. 
fig. 1142; and ‘‘c, floribus roseo-rubris,”’ Wahl., based on Serapias latifolia 
vat. atrorubens, Wahl., /.c..p.. 589, Fl. Dan. t. 1938, and E. atrorubens, 
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