OcTOBER, 1915;] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 317° 
D. HookERIANUM FoWLER’s VAR. is a remarkable peloriate variety, 
differing from the type in having the petals as well as the lip very deeply” 
fringed, this giving the flowers a very distinct appearance. It was described’ 
from the collection of J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., about a year ago (Gard.- 
Chron., 1914, ii. p. 200), and received an Award of Merit from the R.H.5.. 
on September 14th last. R.A.R. 
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GoopYERA REPENS.—This native species is an Orchid very seldom’ 
found in gardens. It would be interesting to know in what gardens it is 
cultivated, and where it is known to blossom. At the present time a small 
plant in the Wilderness garden at Shirley has thrown up two flower spikes, 
one of which is fully developed and the other only now starting. The spike 
in bloom bears twenty-two flowers. It is four years since a tiny bit of the: 
plant was planted, and it has spread underground quite eighteen inches - 
from the original spot.—W.W. 1 
The note appeared in a recent issue of the Gardeners’ Chronicle, and we: 
welcome the Secretary of the R.H.S. to the ranks of the Orchidists. We 
may add that this interesting little plant is cultivated at Kew, and its name- 
appears both in the Hand Lists of Orchids and of Herbaceous Plants. It 
is very widely diffused all round the northern hemisphere, and it is- 
interesting to recall the account of its discovery in Pine woods in Norfolk a - 
few years ago, as recorded at pp. 326 and 327 of our fourteenth volume. It 
is thought to have been introduced there, as its other British habitats are in 
Scotland and the Lake District. 
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in September, 1911, is a paper by M. Ch. Maron, 
the method by which he produced Cattleya Rutilant. 
he obtained by crossing C. velutina with C. aurea, givl 
flowers were chamois yellow, with the lip striped with white and carmine. 
The other parent, C. Vigeriana, was produced by crossing C. aurea with: 
C.labiata. C. Rutilant, the hybrid produced by crossing C. Maroni with 
sized flowers with a trilobed lip. It 
in London on September 29, 1908. 
C. Vigeriana, it is remarked, is a flower of brilliant carmine colour, and it 
is suggested that the brilliant colour of the lip of the C. aurea parent has 
suffused itself through all the segments of the hybrid. M. Maron also 
remarks that the influence of certain parents is very marked and difficult to 
modify. For example in Cattleyas three-fourths derived from a large- 
C. Vigeriana, possesses medium- 
obtained a Frst-class Certificate 
