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‘“a system” as has been well remarked, ‘‘ whose absurdity must be 
apparent to every one who will reflect a moment.” In the same way he 
reduced Lelia to Bletia, yet he continued to describe novelties under both 
genera, and several other cases could be cited of the same illogical system. 
And a precious muddle is the result. No wonder Reichenbach fought 
shy of those Nomenclature Conferences, the need for which he probably 
did as much as any man to create. We do not want botany and 
horticulture to speak in different languages, so that one cannot understand 
the other, and this is what the universal adoption of the principle would 
amount to. It is generally as easy to learn a correct name as an incorrect 
one, and when I apply toa botanical friend for the name of some Orchid, 
I prefer to have the correct one, not something which will have to be 
unlearnt again in the end. Unnecessary changes I object to as strongly 
as anyone, but temporary inconvenience should not prevent the adoption 
of those for which good reasons can be shown. 
ARGUS. 
ORCHIDS OF 1808. 
THE past year has again emphasised the opinion previously expressed, 
that it is to the hybridist that we must chiefly look for a continual stream 
of novelties, though a few new species, and distinct varieties of previously 
known ones, may still be anticipated. The principal event of last year was 
the flowering, in the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, of the beautiful 
Eulophiella Peetersiana, whose portrait was given as a frontispiece of our 
last volume. Stanhopea Rodigasiana is another striking novelty, from the 
same collection, which, it is curious to note, secured a First-class Certificate 
from the Royal Horticultural Society. Zygopetalum Ballii is a striking 
novelty from the collection of G. S. Ball, Esq. The pretty little Orchis 
monophylla, a native of Upper Burma, flowered at Kew. Dendrobium 
hirtulum is a curious little plant, imported with D. infundibulum, from 
the collection of H. Grose Smith, Esq. Ccelogyne pulchella flowered in the 
establishment of Mr. J. W. Moore. Several others, chiefly of botanical 
interest, were also described, though most of them flowered for the first 
time prior to 1898, and of these Cirrpopetalum appendiculatum is the most 
remarkable. Others are noted at pages 302-305 of our last volume. 
Lissochilus arenarius, which has been known to science for so many years, 
has at last appeared in cultivation, in the collection of M. le Duc de Massa. 
Among varieties of existing species may be mentioned the very beautiful 
Odontoglossum crispum Prince of Wales, from Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., 
which was figured at page 337, of our last volume. Dendrobium nobile 
