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that have been grown at Linden House for 

 the past thirteen years. 



The practical part is under the care of Mr 

 G. Accleton, who has just reason to be proud 

 of this valuable collection and the successful 

 manner in which he carries out his duties. 



LINNEAN SOCIETY, 



At a meetuig of the Lumean Society, held 

 at Burlington House, January 15th, 1914, 

 Mr. G. Claridge Druce, M.A., F.L.S., read a 

 paper on a Marsh Orchis for which he 

 proposed the name Orchis prjetermissa (a 

 Latin description being given), and contrasted 

 it with the true flesh-coloured O. incarnata of 

 Linna?us, as described by C. B. Clarke in 

 ] oiirn. Linn. Soc. XIX. (1881) 206, showing- 

 how it differed in the shape of the flowers and 

 in other characters from that plant. O. 

 prsetermissa is the crimson-flowered plant 

 which has a wide distribution through South 

 and Central England. A beautiful painting 

 of it has been executed by Miss Trower from 

 a seedling raised by Mr. B. Savile Ogle, who 

 had collected the parent plant before 1903 on 

 the borders of Berks and Hants. The 

 seedlings obtained from it resembled each 

 other and the parent m all the stages of their 

 growth. The parent was figured as incarnata 

 in the " Report of the Ashmolean Natural 

 History Society of Oxfordshire " for 1904. 



Mr. Druce himself collected the plants in 

 Nottinghamshire in 1S78, in Oxfordshire in 

 1882, in Berks and m Norfolk. 



Mr. P. M. Hall and Mr. R. B. Ullman, 

 who have studied the Orchids from round 

 Winchester with great assiduity, came inde- 

 pendently to the opinion that it was a distinct 

 species (a note on it appears in the curtailed 

 " Report of the Winchester College Nat. Hist. 

 Society "), and found it abundantly in Hamp- 

 shire. A photograph by Mr. Bedford showed 

 that it occurred near Lewes in Sussex. 



Reference was made to another and as yet 

 undescribed form from the Coast Sands of 

 Britain, as well as to a northern plant, but 

 these await further investigation. 



P'ebruar}-, 1914. 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



January 13 th, 1914. 

 Members of the Orchid Committee present : 

 J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (m the chair), Mr. Jas. 

 O'Brien (hon. sec), Sir Harry J. Veitch, 

 Messrs. W. Bolton, Gurney Wilson, S. W. 

 Flory, W. H. White, C. Cookson, A. Dye, 

 W. P. Bound, J. E. Shill, H. G. Alexander, 

 W. H. Hatcher, J. Cypher, C. H. Curtis, A. 

 McBean, T. Armstrong, Stuart Low, R. A. 

 Rolfe, and J. Charlesworth. 



Mrs. Raphael, Castle Hill, Englefield 

 Green, exhibited a splendid group of Cypri- 

 pediums and Calanthes, extending across the 

 end of the Hall. A Silver-gilt Flora Medal 

 was awarded. 



Messrs. Flory and Black, Slough, secured a 

 Silver Flora Medal for an excellent group of 

 well-grown Orchids, including Laelio-Cattleya 

 Tagus (Dominiana x Latona) with yellow 

 sepals and petals ; a dark form of L.-C. 

 Lucasiana ; Cattleya Maggie Raphael ; the 

 distinct Brasso-Cattleya Pyrrha (B. glauca 

 X C. labiata) ; a very large form of 

 Brasso-Laelia Helen ; and many excellent 

 Cypripediums. 



Messrs. Sander and Sons, St. Albans, were 

 awarded a Silver Flora Medal for an attrac- 

 tive group of Lselia Gouldiana. Some 80 

 plants, carrying over 200 spikes, each 

 having 5-8 flowers, were staged. Cattleya 

 Percivaliana Albatross, a white form, and 

 several good hybrids were also shown. 



Messrs. Armstrong and Brown, Tunbridge 

 Wells, received a Silver Banksian Medal for 

 a neat exhibit of Odontoglossum hybrids and 

 Cypripediums, the latter including Holdenii 

 Orchidhurst var., a lighter form than 

 previously seen, but a grand flower ; and 

 Helen II. Armstrong's var., a cream-white 

 flower with slight spotting. The attractive 

 Odontioda wickhamiensis, with rose-pink 

 flowers, and some extra choice forms of 

 Cattleya Maggie Raphael were also shown. 



Messrs. J. Cypher and Sons were awarded 

 a Silver Banksian Medal for a good selection 

 of Cypripediums, the best being Boltonii, 

 Rossettii, Archie Nield, and triumphans. 



THE ORCHID WORLD. 



