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and possibly this actual record of species over hybrid may help fanciers 
eager to wipe out the past to break it in the coming season. 
DE B. CRAWSHAY. 
CHONDROPETALUM FLETCHERI. 
Two interesting inflorescences are sent from the collection of W. Thompson, 
Esq., Walton Grange, Stone, by Mr. Stevens, who remarks: ‘ The plants 
have always been supposed to be from a cross between Zygopetalum 
Mackayi and Chondrorhyncha Chestertoni. We have flowered it for three 
or four years, but never took any notice of it, being so like the Zygopetalum, 
but the present ones have more variation than any I have flowered 
previously.” If the record is correct, the seedlings should belong to 
Chondropetalum Fletcheri, figured at page 56 of our last volume, though 
both are considerably different. One has light green sepals and petals, 
strongly striped with brown, and slightly blotched, and the lip white lined 
throughout with clear purple in slightly interrupted lines ; the other has the 
sepals and petals blotched with brown, and the lip much more white, owing 
to the markings being not half as numerous, and not extending to the apex. 
In neither case can we trace a distinct character of the Chondrorhyncha. 
In the one figured the markings on the lip are limited to the crest. We do 
not know ifall are from the same cross. The cross should now be attempted 
with the Chondrorhyncha as the seed parent. These “false” hybrids are a 
profound mystery, and we wish someone would make some experiments 
analagous with those made by Messrs. Veitch with Cattleya Mossiz. 
CYPRIPEDES FROM BRIDGE HALL, BURY. 
EarLy in December last we received a beautiful series of Cypripedes from 
the collection of O. O. Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury (gr. Mr. Rogers), 
Mr. Wrigley then wrote :— 
‘‘These blooms have been cut in a hurry, in order that they might not 
be damaged by the fearful smoky fogs from which we have been suffering 
during the past week, as these fogs have begun again to-day. It is now 
five years since we had a similar experience of five consecutive days of 
similar dense fogs, and on that occasion our Cypripedes were ruined, and I 
regret to say that a similar fate has befallen these long-suffering flowers 
again. We have close on one thousand blooms open, and most of them are 
beginning to show the effects of the fog, as they are losing their beautiful 
colouring, if the blooms are not destroyed altogether.” 
The list is too long to enumerate, suffice it to say that it includes fine 
examples of all the best yellow and spotted forms of C. insigne, a fine C. 
tonsum, and a very beautiful example of C. Fairrieanum, together with 
several of the best forms of C. x Leeanum, C. X nitens, the beautiful C. x 
