JULY, 1907.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 203. 
which on Friday was followed by pneumonia. Everything possible was 
done, and hopes of recovery were entertained up to the last, but the end 
came on Thursday afternoon, May 30th, from heart failure. The funeral 
took place on Tuesday, June 4th, when a service was held at St. Stephen’s 
Church, West Ealing, and the remains were subsequently cremated at 
Woking. Thus terminates a highly useful and honourable career, and it 
may safely be said that the memory of Dr. Masters will be cherished while 
horticulture lasts. The deceased leaves a widow and two daughters to 
mourn his loss, 
Dr. Masters was the author of numerous botanical works, though very 
few of them relate directly to Orchids, and to these we must confine our 
remarks. There are three in the Journal of the Linnean Society, the first 
entitled ‘*On a peloria and semi-double flower of Ophrys aranifera ” (viii. 
pp- 207-211), read June, 1864. In December, 1865, followed another, 
“On a double-flowered variety of Orchid mascula ” (ix. pp. 349-355, tt. 10, 
It). The third, read November 18, 1886, is entitled ‘‘ Floral Confirmation 
of the genus Cypripedium ” (xxii. pp. 402-422, t. 20). 
The earliest reference to Orchids that we know of appeared in 1857, in 
a short pamphlet issued when Dr. Masters was at Oxford. It relates to 
Ophrys apifera, and runs :—‘‘ Writing to my father on the subject of the 
Bee Orchis, G. Chichester Oxenden, Esq., of Broome Park, Kent, remarks: 
‘For forty years of my life a certain field on this estate was under the 
plough ; after this it was laid down for grass, and the third year after it was 
thus laid down there appeared in it at least a hundred Bee Orchises, more, 
in fact, than existed in a circuit of five miles round.’” (See Phytol. 1857, 
p- 132). The circumstance appeared remarkable, but very little was. 
known about seedling Orchids then, and the inference to-day would be 
that the seeds were sown with the grass. 
There are numerous references to Orchids in his Vegetable Teratology, 
published in 1869, and the study has been extended in numerous scattered 
papers in the Gardener’s Chronicle since. But his knowledge and love of 
Orchids were much greater than would appear from his published writings, 
and as Editor of a journal commenced under the auspices of the illustrious 
Dr. Lindley few men have had more of the literature of Orchids through 
their hands. 
GYMNADENIA CONOPSEA ECALCARATA. 
A VERY interesting form of Gymnadenia conopsea has been sent to Kew by 
J. E. Bode, Esq., Charterhouse, Godalming, the flowers being both pure 
white and spurless. It was found among some white forms of the species, 
which possessed the normal long slender spur, and it is remarked that it 
was seen in the same place last year. It agrees in structure with the 
