SEPTEMBER, 1907. | THE ORCHID REVIEW. 287 
NOTES. 
Two meetings of the R.H.S. will be held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, 
Vincent Square, Westminster, during September, on the 3rd and 17th, 
when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, twelve o’clock 
noon. On the former date a lecture will be given by Mr. F. W. Moore, 
‘V.M.H., at 3 p.m., on “Lesser known Orchids,” accompanied by lantern 
slides. The following meeting will be held on October Ist. 
The two next meetings of the Manchester and North of England Orchid 
Society are fixed for September 1gth and October 3rd, at the Coal 
Exchange, Manchester. The Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits 
are open to inspection from 1 to 3 o’clock p.m. 
Orchidists will learn with regret that the famous collection of Orchids 
formed by R. H. Measures, Esq., The Woodlands, Streatham, has been 
dispersed, having been sold by auction by Messrs. Protheroe & Morris at a 
six days’ sale, commencing on July roth last. It is said that Mr. Measures 
has sold all his Streatham property. The collection of Cypripediums and 
of Lzlio-cattleya elegans, we believe, formed important features. Of late 
years Mr. Measures has not appeared as an exhibitor, and the collection 
has been less known than it otherwise might have been. 
The following notes of Orchids exhibited at the R.H.S. Scientific 
Committee are taken from recent reports :-— 
At the meeting held on June 11th, Mr. C. T. Druery exhibited Aceras 
anthropophora, Orchis Morio, O. maculata and Gymnadenia conopsea, 
collected near Harefield, Middlesex. 
MALFORMATION OF MILTONIA VEXILLARIA.—Baron Schréder sent a 
curious spike of this Orchid which bore four apparently double flowers. 
The spike was produced on a small, and not very vigorous piece, taken from 
a larger plant which had previously borne only single flowers of the 
ordinary type. Mr. Worsdell took the flowers to examine further. 
At the meeting held on June 25th, Mr- Worsdell reported on the double 
Miltonia vexillaria shown at the last meeting, that it was a good case of 
true doubling, in which the column was split up, and the stamens and 
carpels had become petaloid so as to form three or four extra whorls of 
petals (labella on one side of the flower, ordinary petals on the other side), 
while the outer whorls of the flower were quite normal. 
Mr. Bowles exhibited a large spike of 
At the meeting held on July 23rd, 
e meeting held on July by Mr. F. W. Moore from 
Lueddemannia Pescatorei, which had been sent 
the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. 
