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but considerably modified by the influence of O. crispum in the 

 column wings and crest of the "lip. The second has more dark spotting, 

 and larger column wings than the last, while the lip is more like O. 

 triumphans. The two next are similar, except that the brown blotches 

 cover about half the area of the segments ; while the last is very heavily 

 blotched and remarkable for being very evenly distributed over the flower. 

 All of them are very beautiful. Mr. Stevens states that a number of 

 seedlings are showing for flower, one of them actually being flowering from 

 the first bulb. We shall hope to see and hear more of them in due time. 

 Our readers will, of course, remember the illustration of the group of 600 

 seedlings which appeared at page 41 of our last volume. 



Vegetable Curios.— At the usual monthly dinner of the Horticultural 

 Club held on November 10th last, a paper bearing the above title was read 

 by Mr. G. S. Saunders, F.L.S., and the paper was rendered the more 

 interesting by the exhibition of a large number of beautifully-executed 

 drawings of specimens which had come under Mr. Saunders' personal 

 notice. A considerable number of these represented curious divergences 

 from the normal structure of Cypripedium flowers, which appear peculiarly 

 prone to their production, the various parts of the flower appearing 

 abnormally changed in form, or even duplicated or reversed, although in 

 the large majority of cases the modifications can be traced as mere change 

 of form of normal parts, and rarely as actual additions. In these cases of 

 simple malformation, the peculiarity was almost invariably confined to the 

 individual plant, or even the individual flower ; and although recurrent 

 cases were cited, they seemed, as a rule, incapable of reproduction through 

 the seed. It was also pointed out that similar eccentricity was much rarer 



