January, 1912.) THE ORCHID REVIEW. 7 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
A FLOWER of a hybrid Cypripedium, called Mrs. Harry Bruce, now flowering 
for the first time, has been sent from the collection of O. O. Wrigley, Esq., 
Bridge Hall, Bury, by Mr. Rogers, who also encloses flowers of the two 
parents, C. Sallieri virens, a form raised in the collection, and C. 
Thompsonianum. The seedling is larger than either parent, and much 
‘recalls C. villosum in its broad petals, lip, and staminode, while the dorsal 
sepal is very broad, green, with a narrow white margin, a dark median 
band, and some lines of small spots on either side. It is a good bold 
flower, though without the bright colour of C. Thompsonianum or the large 
well-defined spots of the Sallieri parent. The two parents have rather 
neutralised each other, but other seedlings may differ considerably from 
the present one. 
A plant of Cypripedium Faire-Maud bearing a scape of two curiously 
abnormal flowers has been sent from the collection of G. F. Moore, Esq., 
Bourton-on-the-Water, by Mr. Page. The lip of the lower flower is absent, 
and the lower sepal is almost as broad as the dorsal one, one side being 
veined with rose, as in that, the other with green. The petals are quite 
horizontal, and the rest of the flower normal. The upper flower has one 
petal erect, and the other sepal-like and underneath, while the sepals are 
much alike and lateral. There are two miniature lips, apparently divisions 
of one original one, two stamens, and three stigmas. The plant is now 
at Kew, and it will be interesting to see what the flowers are like 
next year, for some of these abnormal flowers repeat themselves. Curiously 
enough, it wasa plant of the same hybrid which produced the crocus-like 
flower noted at page 326 of our last volume. 
CYPRIPEDIUM ASHBURTONI WITH THREE SEPALS. 
I ENCLOSE a photograph of a flower of Cypripedium x Ashburtonie in 
which the lower sepal has divided itself into two, each sepal being perfect, 
and other parts of the flower normal. This seems to be a reversion to the 
original form of construction of Cypripedium, as pointed out in your 
interesting articles on the Evolution of the Orchidacee. The plant has 
this summer produced five of these malformed flowers, besides one normal, 
and one in which the lower sepal was only partly divided. The plant is. 
in bloom now for the third time this season, with one flower open, as shown 
in the picture, and one bud, which also shows the same characteristics. 
It really seems as though the peculiarity has become fixed. I will try to 
get some seed from these flowers to see whether their offspring will have 
the same tendency.—M. J. Pope, gardener to Mrs. B. B. Tuttle, Naugatuck, 
Conn:, US.A, 
