THE ORCHID REVIEW. 13 
on July 24 last ; but a fortnight later the self-same plant was exhibited by 
Messrs. W. L. Lewis and Co. as C. x calloso-levigatum. Your report 
differs from others in using the original name in each case, but it was not 
so exhibited on the latter occasion. 
And here is yet a third example. A Cypripedium exhibited by M. Jules 
Hye-Leysen was certificated by the Orchidéene, of Brussels, last autumn, as 
€. x Meteor, and by the Royal Horticultural Society as C. x Charles 
Richman. The Journal of Horticulture figured it under the former name, 
and The Gardeners’ Magazine under the latter. This case was alluded to at 
page 303 of the last volume, and I quite endorse the remarks there made. 
I suppose many of these difficulties arise from the large number of 
hybrids of similar parentage which are being raised in different collections, 
but all the same it is very confusing, and some of it surely might be 
avoided. ARGUS. 
CYPRIPEDIUM CHARLESWORTHII. 
Out of my forty to fifty plants of Cypripedium Charlesworthii, I have 
bloomed about a dozen, and find considerable variation in the colour of the 
flowers, and the shape and size of the dorsal sepal. Most of them have 
had light rose coloured flowers, grained with white, the dorsal sepal has 
been much reflexed, and the leaves of the plants have been small and 
narrow. A few plants, having much longer and broader leaves, have 
produced flowers of a uniformly deep tint of rose colour, and a very broad 
dorsal, which does not reflex in the slightest degree. The most noteworthy 
variety, of which only one bud has appeared, is one having a grass-green 
flower stalk, instead of the usual deep purple or almost black stalk, 
common to all the other blooms. I watched the growth of this peculiar bud 
with great interest, until it had reached the height of three and a quarter 
inches, when to my extreme disappointment its growth seemed to be 
suddenly arrested, and decay set in. This decay I attribute either to the 
smoking of the house in which the plant was growing, or to the dense and 
smoky fogs which have been prevalent in this district during the early part 
of December. On cutting off the flower stalk, and opening the bud sheath, 
the bud itself was just beginning to decay, but dissection almost led me to 
expect that the dorsal would have been white, and the pouch of a very dark 
brown. Irecord these facts in the hope that they may interest yourself 
and your readers. | co . 
‘ Bridge Hall, Bury. : ations O. O. WRIGLEY. 
