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dV are indebted to M. Fernand Denis, Balaruc-les-bains, France, for 
the flower scapes of two of the very interesting hybrid Ophryses 
recorded at page 127 of our last volume. The first is O. lutea major x 
Speculum, of which five seedlings are said to have bloomed this year, four 
with one, the other with two flowers. The one sent has greenish yellow 
sepals and petals, and a strongly three-lobed, brown, hairy lip, darker in 
colour than would have been anticipated from the parentage. The other is 
O. Scolopax X Speculum, of which two plants have bloomed, and which is 
to be described by Dr. G. Keller under the name of O. Chobauti. In this 
case the seed parent is one of the rose-coloured species, and the hybrid has 
rosy sepals and petals, and a three-lobed, very hairy, dark-coloured lip. 
The colour cannot well be described, because, owing to difficulties in 
sending, the flowers had to be dried and enclosed in a letter. Two other 
hybrids mentioned by M. Denis are, O. Bertolonii X Speculum, of which 
two seedlings have bloomed, and O. bombyliflora x Speculum, called O. 
balarucensis, G. Keller, of which three plants have flowered. O. Speculum 
was the pollen parent in each case. M. Denis’ experiments are likely to 
throw a useful light on what is occurring in nature in this interesting genus. 
At the énd of April, M. Denis remarked that hardy terrestrial Orchids 
seemed to be flowering badly this year, both under cultivation and in a 
wild state, only Ophrys aranifera and the forms of O. lutea being flowering 
as usual, while Serapias elongata had been killed outright. A fortnight 
later, however, he wrote that, after a few warm days, he was surprised to 
see, in a small wood of Pinus alepensis near the Pont du Gard, the 
celebrated Roman Aqueduct at Montpellier, an abundant flowering of 
Ophrys arachnitiformis, Aceras anthopophora, and Orchis coriophora, 
with a few early Limrodorum abortivum. 
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THREE NEW “SPECIES” OF OrcHIS.—Under the title “ Diagnoses 
specierum trium generis Orchis nondum vel imperfecte descriptarum,” 
M. C. A. Urginsky has described and figured, in a pamphlet, what he calls 
three ‘‘ new species” of Orchis, namely, O. pseudoparviflora, O. Reinhardii, 
and O. Kelleriana, which were found in localities in Central Russia. All 
are said to be natural hybrids between O. elegans, Heuff., and O. 
coriophora, L. As O. elegans is itself synonymous with O. palustris, L., 
and as the natural hybrid between the latter and O. coriophora is known 
as O. Timbalii, Velen., we should regard the three others as varieties of it 
—certainly not as new species.—R.A.R. 
HYBRID: OPHRYSES. 
