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mosaic rather than a blend. It is interesting to note that the hairs within 

 the lip are sharply separated, as is the colour, and there is also a slight 

 tendency to separation in the colour of the dorsal sepal and the petals. 

 Whether this partial ' sport ' will prove permanent remains to be seen, 

 though it is not very likely. We really know very little about the manner 

 in which the cells of hybrids are determined and formed, but this particular 

 case suggests that when the cells were being formed in areas 1 and 2, the 

 parental determinants, instead of working together to form a blend, somehow 

 separated, the P. superbiens determinants alone forming No. 1 area, and 

 the P. villosum determinants forming the other, No. 2. Similar ' sports * 

 have been recorded in the allied hybrid P. X Harrisianum (P. barbatum X 

 P. villosum), for the history of which see Cypripedium X Dauthieri 

 Rossianum, Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1888, i. p. 425 ; C. X D. marmoratum, 

 Rev. Hort. Beige, 1889, p. 249, with plate ; C. X Dauthieri dimidiate, 

 Gard. Chron., 1895, i. p. 335, lig. 45. Conf. also Orch. Rev., 1894, pp. 20, 



At the meeting held on November 18th there was again an extremely 

 fine display of Orchids. 



Captain G. L. Holford, CLE;, Westonbirt, Tetbury (gr. Mr. 

 Alexander), was awarded a large Gold Medal for a magnificent group, 

 tastefully arranged with Bambusa gracilis, containing many examples of 

 Oncidium varicosum, O. crispum, O. tigrinum, various good forms of 

 Cattleya labiata, Cymbidium Tracyanum, with three fine spikes, some fine 

 Vanda coerulea, and a very large number of well-grown Cypripediums, 

 bearing in all over 500 flowers, including a specimen of C. insigne 

 Harefield Hall variety with four flowers ; the allied C. i. Holfordianum, 

 C. i. aureum, C. i. Dorothy, C. i. Standard, C. i. Westonbirt var., 

 C. i. Sanderae, C. i. Sanderianum, C. i. citrinum, C. i. Balliae, C. i. Luciani, 

 C. i. Dormanii, C. i. Youngianum, C. i. punctato-violaceum, with eleven 

 flowers ; C X Leeanum magnificum, C. X L. superbum, C. X L. Burford 

 variety, C. X L. Westonbirt variety, C. X L. Albertianum, C. X Niobe 

 magnificum, C. X Lavvrebel, C. X Maudiae magnificum, C. X Mons. de 

 Curte, C. X Euryades, C. X Io grande, C. X Arthurianum pulchellum,. 

 C. X Cyris, and C. X Acteus. A Cultural Commendation was given to a 

 fine plant of Cypripedium X Leeanum giganteum, bearing fourteen 

 flowers, while a similar award was made to a magnificent plant of Cattleya 

 Bowringiana, with ten spikes, bearing 198 flowers, the largest spike having 

 twenty-six. 



N. C. Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne (gr. Mr. H. j. 

 Chapman), received a Silver Banksian Medal for a good group, containing 

 some fine examples of Cypripedium insigne Sanderae, C. i. Harefield Hall 



