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Trevor Lawrence’s Cypripedium. It is pallid all over without any tint of 
purple, has even green veins on the vexillar dorsal sepal. Even the leaves 
are very pallid, as I had guessed, and as Mons. Hye Leysen ascertained. 
But this pallor is all. I am persuaded we must regard it as Cypripedium 
Lawrenceanum variety Hyeanum, the name having been given, otherwise 
we might better call it ‘‘ Mons. Hye Leysen’s individual.” The horticul- 
tural world may be pleased with such a thing, but the botanists will not feel 
over-excited by such individuals. The history is simply, that it was found 
at the old establishment of Linden amidst a mass of typical C. 
Lawrenceanum. There is but oneplant. My old friend Professor Hackel, 
of Leitmeritz, in Bohemia, told me of a single white Cypripedium 
Calceolus having been found among thousands of the normal ones.” 
It must have been about this time that the plant was figured in Lindema 
(i. t. 42), as C. Hyeanum, L. Lind. & Rod. (with the name C. Lawrence- 
anum Hyeanum asa synonym), and the record that it appeared in a mass 
of C. Lawrenceanum in the Ghent establishment. Thus we have conclusive 
evidence that it came originally out ofan importation by Messrs. Hugh Low 
& Co., but whether there were originally two plants or a single one that was 
divided is not clear. Inany caseit isan albino of C. Lawrenceanum. R.A.R. 
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|* a note at page 163 it was pointed out that the, Royal Horticultural 
| Society would be able to return to its own Hall for the meeting of 
October 21st, and for subsequent meetings, of which three others, November 
4th, 18th, and December 2nd, would complete the programme for IgIQ. 
The dates of the two meetings for January, 1920, are the 13th and 27th. 
The Orchid Committee meets at II.45 a.m. 
The corresponding meetings of the Manchester and North of England 
Orchid Society, are November 6th and zoth, and December 4th and 18th, 
1919, and January 8th and 22nd, 1920. The Committee meets at noon, 
and the exhibits are open to inspection from I to 4 p.m. 
At the R.H.S. Orchid Committee meeting held on September gth, a letter 
was read from a correspondent regretting that, owing to the show of British- 
grown Fruit, the Orchid Committee was not sitting for a whole month. 
He also asked the Committee to waive the rule by which awards are not 
given to cut spikes, owing to the difficulty of bringing plants to London 
from a distance. The question of a meeting on October 7th, was referred 
to the Council, but the Committee decided to adhere to their rule that cut 
flowers should not receive awards except in very exceptional cases. At the 
