﻿November, i 9 o 4 .] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



counted forty-two full-grown flowers, many stems bearing two blossoms. 

 This indeed was one of the most charming sights, suggesting the luxuriance 

 of the humid climate of the tropics." This is the group figured. Yet they 

 do increase, for a few lines lower we read: " A unique row of seedlings of 

 this species (Cyripedium Reginae) too young to blossom, and reminding one 

 of a row of barn swallows, not yet sufficiently matured to fly, grew along a 

 moss-covered pine log. near the parent colony of plants." 



Other species figured are C. hirsutum (pubescens), C, parvifiorum, and 

 C. arietinum, together with C. candidum and C. montanum, which do not 

 occur in the Hoosac Valley. Of other genera the following are figured 

 in colour: Orchis spectabilis, Habenaria Hookeriana, H. grandiflora, 

 H. hyperborea, H. dilatata, H. orbiculata, Pogonia ophioglossoides, 

 Limodorum tuberosum, Arethusa bulbosa, " a rare, shy Orchid found in 

 company with the rose Pogonia and grass Pink in the heart of sphagnous 

 swamps," and Calypso bulbosa. The twenty-lour coloured plates are all 

 Orchids, and the remainder include Orchids and other flowers, as well as 

 some charming views. 



From the Appendix we gather that the authoress favours that particular 

 school of nomenclature which can write such a name as " Corallorhiza 

 Corallorhiza (Linnaeus) Karst, 1753— 1880— 1883 " (whatever it may mean), 

 without compunction. We notice one " new species," at p. 258, 

 " Habenaria Andrewseii White n. sp. (per letter), 1903," a natural hybrid 

 from H. psycodes X lacera, which is said to be " flourishing and increasing 

 in numbers in its special haunts." It is figured from a photograph. 



It is a book to be read, and as the publishers very well observe : " Miss 

 Niles is an enthusiastic bog-trotter, and she describes in a very charming 

 way plant life in the swamps of the Hoosac Valley, a region extending over 

 parts of Vermont, New York, and Massachusetts." 



DACTYLOSTALIX RINGENS. 



An interesting Japanese Orchid has recently been described and figured by 

 Finet, as a new genus, under the name of Pergamena uniflora {Bull. Soc. 

 Bot. France, xlvii. p. 263, t. 8). The author describes it as very near 

 Calypso, of which it has entirely the habit, and part of the characters, 

 differing chiefly in having a flat, not concave lip, and a creeping rhizome 

 instead of a pseudobulb. It is based upon a plant collected by the Rev. 

 Pere Faurie, in the forests of Kayashimoe, at 1500 metres altitude, in June, 

 1894. I find that the plant is figured in the Japanese work, Somokn Zusetsu 

 (xviii., t. 44) under the native names of " Hitcha-ran," and " Ichiyo-ran." 

 The latter name signifies " One - leaved Orchid." It is labelled 



