234 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
compare them at any season of the year, is so obvious that it isa won 
the system is not more widely adopted. 
Another very interesting feature at Rosefield is a little collection of — 
British Orchids, which have been gradually brought in and planted ona 
grassy bank, where they seem to feel quite at home. Here were various 
plants of Orchis mascula, O. Morio and a rare pink variety, O. maculata 
and its pretty variety alba, O. latifolia, O. pyramidalis, Ophrys apifera, and 
O. aranifera, Gymnadenia conopsea, Listera ovata, and Herminium mon- 
orchis, quite a charming little group, but owing to the exceptionally dry 
Season some of them were over. a 
Mr. Crawshay seems imbued with Orchidic lore, as he knows the history 
of every plant in his collection, and all his operations are conducted in an 
intelligent and methodical manner, as his records everywhere show. In 
fact, the collection generally shows the great interest taken in it by its 
enthusiastic possessor, and the cultural skill of his gardener, Mr. Sydney — 
Cooke.. ‘ 
or 
EULOPHIELLA ELISABETH. 
Our attention has been called to the statement at p. 207, that M. Le 
Hamelin was the discoverer of this plant. It is said that although he sent 
home the plants recently sold in England, the discoverer of the species was: 
M. Sallarin, a collector of Messrs. Linden, L’Horticulture Internationale, 
Brussels, who has since died. It is said that a-single plant appeared in 
importation of Angrzcum sesquipedale and Grammangis Ellisii, sent home — 
by M. Sallarin. Although evidently distinct from the outset, its re 
character was not known until it flowered. In March, 1891, M. Hamelin 
wrote to Messrs. Linden that M. Sallarin, of whom news had not k 
received for some months, had been drowned by the upsetting of a SI 
Pirogue, when crossing an.arm of the sea. At the same time M. H : 
offered his services in collecting plants. When the Eulophiella flowered, 
water-colour drawing was made, which was sent to M. Hamelin, toge 
with the part of the Lindenia in which the figure and description appea s 
and several additional copies of the coloured plate, requesting him to collect 
plants on their account. In October, 1892, M. Hamelin replied that he na 
recognised the plant on receipt of the documents, and. would collect al 
forward living specimens. We record these statements, because of the 
they throw upon the question of the discovery of this remarkable 
The subsequent history of the transaction js on record, and need not 
repeated here, Save and except one choice little extract: ‘ Tell me 
Price-you offer me for the remainder, because I have entirely destroyed 
plant in its native habitat” (“ Veuillez me dire quel. prix vous m’offrire 
pied, car j’ai completement détruit la plante sur les lieux d’origine ”).. = 
