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proves to be a well-known old species, and the other belongs to another 
genus. I suspect that some curious discoveries will be made when the 
mysterious Herbarium is opened. There may be other Reichenbachian 
types of this kind in existence. A certain proportion of them has already 
been recovered in this way, but many died soon after they were described. 
ARGUS. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
PAPIOPEDIUM X LiLy MEASURES. 
THIS is a very pretty hybrid, raised in the collection of R. H. Measures, 
Esq., The Woodlands, Streatham, from Paphiopedium Dayanum ¢ and 
P. niveum ¢, which has now flowered for the first time. The flower sent 
has a scape about five inches high, and is fairly intermediate in shape and 
colour between its two parents. The dorsal sepal is ovate, 1} inches long, 
pale greenish-white, with about seventeen rows of minute light purple dots, 
which extend three-fourths of the way to the apex. The petals are oblong, 
2¢ inches long, by seven-eighths of an inch broad, similar in colour to the 
dorsal sepal, but the minute purple dots much more numerous, especially 
near the base on the upper side. The lip is nearly two inches long, rather 
compressed, pale greenish-white, with numerous minute light purple dots 
extending from the mouth half way to the apex; also on the infolded side 
lobes. The staminode is short and broad, strongly reticulated in the centre 
with green, the rest being white, slightly tinged and spotted with purple. 
The petals and dorsal sepals are shortly fringed. Mr. Measures remarks 
‘that he has had a lot of this cross, but never succeeded in growing it 
satisfactorily or flowering it- until now, and he thinks it will be a beauty 
when flowering in cooler weather. 
GYMNADENIA CONOPSEA ? 
‘‘ Ir was stated by Hausmann, in his Flora von Tyrol, 1854, that Gymnadenia 
conopsea, R. Br., varies very much in form as well as in colour; evena 
form without a spur is mentioned. Should not the plant found near 
Arisaig be one of these forms of Gymnadenia ees "—O. F., 
Lehenhof, in G ard. Chron., Sept. roth, p. 200. 
This question arises out of the note on Gymnadenia xX conopseo- 
_albida, which originally appeared at page 238 of the present work, but I 
think sufficient details are given to enable anyone to answer it in the 
negative. One might as well ask, is it not a variety of G. albida ?—Or, is 
it not a new British species? True, there is also the plant from the 
Austrian Alps, and if ‘‘ O. F.” will read the note again I think he will agree 
that it isa natural hybrid, as stated. If not, nothing that I can say will 
conyince him, and here the matter must end, R. A. R, 
