<< THE ORCHID REVIEW. (FEBRUARY, 1917. 
cattleya boarina, we instantly thought of Lelia cinnabarina, not i Fe Perrinii, 
as the second parent. Perhaps this would be called Lc. cinboa, which 
would commit us to cinrin (or rincin), for a hybrid between the two Lelias: 
mentioned. And in any case the suggested abbreviations would give. us 
Cattleya amme (or meam) asa possible alternative for C. interglossa, which 
is doubtfully recognisable. 
And we think that in one important point the system would fail ‘to 
indicate the composition of a hybrid, namely, when it was recrossed with 
the original parents. To select one of numerous instances, we may cite 
the case of Cochlioda Neetzliana crossed with Odontoglossum crispum, 
yielding Odontioda Bradshawiz. The latter has been recrossed with both 
the original parents, giving Odontioda Flamingo with the Cochlioda, and 
O. Schroederi with the Odontoglossum, yet whatever abbreviation was 
adopted for the primary hybrid would also stand for the two others, since 
no new specific element was introduced. Such a method would neither be 
desirable in itself nor helpful in future work. Again, the system would 
combine the crosses Cypripedium nitens X Spicerianum, C. Lathamianum 
x insigne, and C. Leeanum x villosum under a single name, the specific 
composition being identical except in the question of percentages, which 
would revolutionise nomenclature in another direction. The fact is no 
euphonious system of nomenclature can be devised that will also indicate 
specific composition. 
We are not much enamoured with the modern extension of the so-called 
“Jumble name” to species. In the case of genera something was clearly 
necessary, because generic hybrids cannot properly be referred to either 
parent genus, and the system initiated by the late Dr. Maxwell Masters, 
when he coined the name Philageria to indicate a hybrid between Philesia 
and Lapageria, and which was extended by the writer to Orchids, worked 
admirably until a modern innovation introduced unnecessary hyphens and 
capital letters in the middle of the name, a practise which is still continued 
by some, though expressly vetoed by the provisions of the Brussels Nomen- 
clature Congress. If the system could be extended to species with the 
same amount of success few serious objections need be raised against it, but 
its limitations in this direction are now pretty generally recognised. 
“Evolution by means of Hybridisation ” is the title of a new book by 
Dr. John Lotzy, whose paper on the “ Origin of Species by Crossing’ has 
already been. considered (O.R., xxii. pp. 63-66). Its object is to show that, 
in the author’s opinion, inheritable variation without crossing does not exist. 
There is a long discussion as to what a species really is, a question which it 
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