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and the other having the crispum size and acuminate segments, combined 
with the Adriane shape and markings. The other is a light form of O. x 
W. H. Hatcher (xX crispo-Harryanum Xx Pescatorei Charlesworthii), 
having light yellow flowers, slightly suffused and copiously blotched with 
purple on all the segments, the lip being broadly pandurate, with some of 
the Harryanum characters in the crest. They form a very beautiful 
series. 
A remarkable form of Odontoglossum crispum is sent from the collection 
of O. O. Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury, by Mr. Rogers, in which the 
dorsal sepal is as broad, round, and as much fringed as the petals. Mr. 
Rogers remarks that it was precisely similar last year, when it flowered for 
the first time. A dark form of O. triumphans is also sent, which flowered 
out of an importation of O. crispum, evidently from the district which 
produces the wild forms of O. X loochristiense. 
Cymbidium X Lowgrinum, raised in the collection of R. I. Measures, 
Esq., of Camberwell, decidedly improves as it gains strength, for we have 
now received a spike bearing seven flowers. Mr. Smith remarks that the 
plants get stronger each year, and the largest is now in a 24-sized pot. 
Two plants this year produced a couple of spikes each. 
A particularly fine form of Brassolelia x Veitchii (Lelia purpurata 9 
x Brassavola Digbyana ¢) is sent by M. F. Denis, Balaruc les Bains, 
Hérault, France. The lip is very large, and bright rosy purple round the 
light yellow disc. M. Denis remarks that the flower measured 26 
centimétres (over 10 inches) from tip to tip of the sepals when at its best. 
He has a Brassolelia x Helen still larger, measuring 27 centimétres, and 
he considers these measurements exceptional. 
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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Orchid Hybrids. Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans. 8vo. pp. 125. 
Messrs. Sander & Sons have re-issued the List of Orchid Hybrids, as 
published in their Orchid Guide, incorporating the Addenda, and bringing 
the work up to date. The information is given in triplicate ; first under the 
name of the hybrid, then under the seed parent, and lastly under the pollen 
parent, the lists in each case being alphabetical. The lists consist of the 
names and parentage only, without reference to dates, raisers, or publica- 
tion, and unfortunately a good many of the hybrids have received several 
names, and there is no means of finding out which is the original one. It 
will be useful as a means of finding out which species have been inter- 
crossed together, as well as for tracing the parentage of any given 
hybrid, 
