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CYPRIPEDIUM x VIPANI VAR. CORNINGII. 
THE photograph here reproduced represents a_ beautiful and very 
interesting hybrid now in the collection of J. E. Rothwell, Esq., Brookline, 
Mass., U.S. A. (gr. Mr. Nutch), which has been sent to us by Mr. E. A. 
Orpet, with the information that it was raised in the collection of the Hon. 
Erastus Corning, at Albany, New York, by his gardener, Mr. William Grey, 
who named it C. X Corningii. The history of the plant was thus given by 
the raiser in a letter to. Mr..G. Hansen (Orch. Hyb., p. 71) :—‘‘In 1892, 
feeling Pickwickian, I fertilised Cypripedium barbatum pulcherrimum with 
one anther of niveum, one of Spicerianum, and one of insigne Chantini 
(which would have given, respectively, X Tautzianum, X Eyermanianum, 
Fig. 11.—CYPRIPEDIUM X VIPANI VAR. CORNINGII. 
and X Ashburtoniz). The three anthers were placed on the stigma in a 
few seconds. I have nine nice plants, two very strong growers with leaves 
mottled like Aylingii (which is from ciliolare X niveum, but longer, and 
twice the width. The others look all Spicerianum stock.” Mr. Orpet now 
states that the present plant is the only existing one, and that the leaves 
have the thickness of C. Reebelenii, and are very slightly tessellated, and the 
flower pure white with bright red spots. So much for the history-of the 
plant ; now comes the question of its identity. 
Had we received this photograph, without the above record, with the 
request for its name and parentage, we should almost unhesitatingly have 
