238 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
bud. Odontoglossums were also numerous and well grown, comprising 
most of the well-known kinds, some of them in quantity, and a goodly 
number already in flower. Among miscellaneous Orchids, we must not 
forget to mention two good plants of the new and remarkable Eulophiella 
Peetersiana, of course not in flower, or we might have previously met with 
them at Ghent with the premier group exhibited by M. Peeters, which 
latter gives an excellent idea of the kind of culture carried on here. And the 
seedlings must not be forgotten, the Cattleyas being a particularly interest- 
ing lot, containing hundreds of plants in all stages; some of which we shall 
expect to hear of again as they reach the flowering stage. 
(To be continued.) 
GYMNADENIA x CONOPSEO-ALBIDA. 
(A NEW BRITISH ORCHID.) 
ANOTHER very interesting addition to the British Orchid-flora has just come 
tolight. A note by C. Wolley Dod, in the Gardeners’ Chronicle for July 23rd 
(p. 61), states that about the end of June, a friend, on a visit in the 
Highlands, sent him for identification an Orchis which he found near 
Arisaig, in Inverness-shire, which he recognised as resembling Habenaria 
conopsea, but differing from it, especially in the spur, which was much 
shorter. Not knowing it, he sent it to his son, Capt. Wolley Dod, who 
is well up in the native flora. It was new to him, though he doubtfully, 
and from description only, referred it to H. odoratissima; a native of 
the mountains of France and Germany; he also asked if more specimens 
could be obtained. With some difficulty, as the flowering season was 
then over, two more were found. These were brought by Capt. Wolley 
Dod to Kew (where one is now preserved), and a comparison with 
authentic specimens soon showed that they did not belong to H. (or really 
Gymnadenia) odoratissima. He had also suspected that the plant might 
be a natural hybrid between Gymnadenia conopsea and G. albida, as it 
was found associated with these two species and Orchis maculata, and 
he left me to work the question out. 
These two species are very dissimilar, G. albida has white flowers, an 
equally triscuspidate lip, and a short, swollen and obtuse spur, not 
equalling the lip; while G. conopsea has rose-purple flowers, an unequally 
trilobed lip, and a filiform, acute spur many times longer than the lip. 
The hybrid—for such it evidently is—has rose-purple flowers, but the 
_ spur is stout, and only twice as long as the lip, which latter organ is about 
intermediate in shape; the leaves also are intermediate in shape, but the 
spike closely resembles that of G. albida. Such a hybrid has already 
