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slipper (and not the “‘foot”’), as I suppose everybody now does, let us use 
the new spelling, but never forget that the i is long. 
A third correspondent observes :—I notice that you have now decided 
in favour of the names Cypripedilum, Paphiopedilum, and Phragmipedilum. 
The argument in favour of the adoption of these names seems to me to be 
reasonable, if not actually conclusive, so for the future I also will make 
use of them. 
And a fourth says :—Respecting Paphiopedilum, I suppose we must 
follow Pfitzer and Sir Joseph Hooker, and insert the ‘1,’ though I much 
prefer the form ‘“ Paphiopedium.” Iam glad to see that this month the 
new names are adopted uniformly. It ismuch more consistent. I find that 
the man in the street, be he “Tom, Dick, or Harry,’ appreciates con- 
sistency, even if he does not understand nomenclature, and the rest is only 
a matter of time. 
It will certainly be interesting to watch the development of this 
question, 
ARGUS. 
CYPRIPEDIUM x VANHOUTTEANUM. 
FURTHER evidence has come to hand which clears up the origin of this 
remarkable hybrid, a matter which hitherto has been doubtful. It was 
originally described as a hybrid of unknown parentage, which flowered for 
the first time at Gand, in February, 1888, and caused a great sensation. It 
appears that M. Dauthier, who was for many years foreman of Messrs. Van 
Houtte’s establishment at Gand, discovered some small seedlings on the 
compost of a Cypripedium which had been purchased from Messrs. Veitch, 
of Chelsea. In course of time they reached the flowering stage, and 
proved to be C. x Dauthieri. Among them, however, was one seedling 
which seemed feeble and developed much more slowly than the others. It, 
however, found a purchaser in M. Jules de Cock, at the price of 20 francs. 
When it flowered it proved to be so remarkable that it was sold to M. Jules 
Hye for 2,500 francs. It was figured in Lindenia, iu, p. 71, t. 130, and is 
represented as having leaves exactly like C. x Dauthieri, but the flowers of 
a rosy-purple shade, with darker veins on the dorsal sepal and a 
Narrow white margin. Messrs. Veitch, in the following year, recorded 
it as C. x Madame Van Houtte (Man. Orch., iv. p. 90), and remark :— 
“supposed to have originated in the horticultural establishment of 
M. Louis Van Houtte, at Ghent.” ‘‘ Parentage doubtful; probably C. 
niveum and one of the species of the C. venustum group (C. barbatum, 
&c.)” C. niveum and C. x Dauthieri have also been suggested as the 
