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stock and buying more, but, apart from the expense, there is the possibility 
that the new stock may also be affected, for it appears that it comes with 
imported plants. Better, I think, to try and find out all about its habits, 
in which case a remedy would almost certainly suggest itself. An eye 
should be kept on newly-imported plants, or those who have hitherto not 
been troubled with the pest may suddenly discover it in their collections. 
The article on “ Cypripediums with identical names ” (pp. 11 and 37) is 
very suggestive, and indicates the growing confusion in the nomenclature 
of hybrid Cypripediums, to which I have alluded on more than one 
occasion. Mr. Young must have exercised a good deal of patience and 
industry in compiling the list, and I rather think that should he undertake 
to collect the Cypripediums with identical parentage he will find it a still 
greater task, to say nothing of the difficulty our Editor might have in finding 
space for it, without displacing more important articles. If it only brought 
about a better state of things the space would not be wasted, but the 
question is whether those who stand most in need of such an article would 
take the trouble to consult it. The one clear thing is that this rapidly growing 
confusion ought to be checked. 
It is not alone in Cypripedium that many unnecessary names are 
continually being given, for I frequently see references to this fact in the 
Review. Only last December I noticed that such a well-known plant a 
Eulophia guineensis had been re-described under a new name, together 
with Catasetum incurvum. In a similar way I see that the well-know? 
Lelio-cattleya x elegans has been re-described under at least four different 
names, which is suggestive of a great deal. An article on the Manufacture 
of Synonyms would be instructive, if not altogether entertaining reading: 
I was glad to see the enumeration of Lelia anceps varieties at pages 
5° to 53, as it was in one of my first articles that I suggested the - 
for such a list. Information of this kind is generally so widely scattered 
gree be practically inaccessible, but with the characters of each variety 
briefly indicated, and arranged in something like sequence, it wie 
future be possible to determine, 
pretty nearly, at all events, any doubtful 
form. 
I hope to see more of such useful lists in the future. 
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