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considered of so much importance, it seems desirable. to call attention 
to the fact that there are two earlier names for it. Aiton described it in 
1789 as C. album, which seems to have been discarded as inapplicable, 
because the lip is rose-coloured, though no such objection can be urged 
against Walter’s earlier name, for it has been spoken of as the queen of 
terrestrial Orchids in the northern hemisphere, and little exception can be 
taken to the remark, as those who know its grace and beauty will admit. 
The effect of large clumps of it in full flower, as seen in its native home in 
the peat bogs of Canada and Eastern North America, where in some 
localities it is very abundant, must indeed be superb. A most remarkable 
fact is that it has recently been discovered in Western China, on the 
borders of Tibet, together with the remarkable little C. arietinum, R. Br., 
which is also a native of Canada and Eastern North America. A note on the 
cultivation of the present species will be found at p. 103 of our April issue. 
Cypripedium Regine, Wa/t. Fl. Carol. (1788), p. 222. 
C. album, A7t. Hort. Kew, ed. 1, iii. (1789), p. 3033 Bot. Mag., t. 216. 
saat Salisb. in Zrans. Linn. Soc., i. ( 1791), p. 78, t. 3, fig 3; Lindl. Bot. Reg., 
- 1666. 
C. canadense, Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer, ii. (1803), p. 161. 
SATYRIUM GUTHRIEI. 
Hitherto I believe no hybrid Orchid has been recorded from South Africa, 
though as the species are numerous, and some of them grow intermixed, 
they may be expected to occur. The above Satyrium has just been 
described and figured by Mr. Bolus as a new species, from a single 
specimen found growing in burnt-off places on the Cape Flats, near 
Cape Town, together with S. candidum, Lindl., by Mr. F. Guthrie. It is 
mentioned as a remarkable and distinct species, whose “ column resembles 
in some degree that of S. bicallosum, Thunb., while both are, in this 
respect, very different from that of any other Satyrium known. In every 
other character this differs greatly from S. bicallosum, and I very much 
doubt if it is a natural hybrid.” It is therefore clear that a suspicion arose 
in Mr. Bolus’ mind, and on comparing his drawings of the three together 
(S. candidum being unpublished and kindly lent to me by Mr. Bolus), I 
have no doubt that §. Guthriei is a natural hybrid, and that its proper 
name is S. x bicalloso-candidum. The two parents are remarkably distinct 
in every respect, and far apart systematically, yet S. Guthriei is as precisely 
intermediate as hybrids usually are. The two species grow together in 
some localities, if not in the precise spot indicated ; and in any case both 
are common on the Cape Peninsula, an area about a fourth larger than 
the Isle of Wight. Formerly it was the custom to consider everything 
either a species or a variety, and to ignore hybrids, which are neither the 
