6 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
League, and I readily forgive him for getting a little mixed. Indeed, if I 
touched Cypripediums often I fear I should get mixed myself. Ceres, 
Fascinator, and Medea areall right, but not the others. Still, I can furnish the 
necessary illustration. C. x Charles Richman, X Météore, X Leysenianum, 
x Francois Peeters, and x Marchioness (or Countess) of Salisbury (both 
having been recorded), are all derived from C. barbatum and C. bellatulum. 
The moral holds good all the same, though I cannot quite endorse the 
remark about the Latin naming, for if all had received different Latin 
names the result would have been just the same. My own views that the 
proper name of this hybrid is C. xX Richmanii are already on record— 
my readers may adopt them or not as they please—and I consider all 
the others either synonymous or varieties only; the latter if distinct 
enough, but I question whether all would stand the test of being grown 
side by side. The remarks about complimentary names in the vernacular 
Iendorse, except when applied to florists’ flowers and according to florists’ 
methods. I note with pleasure the growing feeling against a system which 
is rapidly bringing our nomenclature into a state of hopeless confusion, 
and as the Review affords a medium for the Jahres me of the results 
achieved by the hybridist, I hope to see a cor in the 
future. 
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ARGUS. 
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CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE. 
A SERIES of a dozen flowers of Cypripedium insigne has been sent by Mr. 
J. Coles from the collection of R. H. Measures, Esq., The Woodlands, 
eae ig show the LS peaeerits range of variation in the so-called 
’ forms i duced by Messrs. F. Sander & Co. some time 
ago. They are cut from a house containing upwards of a thousand blooms. 
The numerous fine varieties which have appeared during recent years were 
enumerated in these pages a year ago (pp. 8-11), when a series somewhat 
similar to the above came from the collection of O. O. Wrigley, Esq., 
Bridge Hall, Bury. The present series does not contain any of the named 
forms previously mentioned, but it shows a wide range of variation both in 
shape and colour, and especially in the size and arrangement of the spots. 
One large form has the dorsal sepal 2} inches broad, and some of the spots 
in the centre are over }-inch in diameter. Another smaller form has 
numerous quite minute dots on the lower half, a few only along the centre 
being somewhat broader. A third, smaller still, has the spots quite minute and 
confined to the base of the sepal, while, in a fourth, they are suffused over 
the lower half of the same organ as a brownish stain. In another example 
the spots are large and chiefly arranged along the centre. One rather bright 
form, in which the petals and lip are rather dark, bears a two-flowered scape, 
