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THE ORCHID WORLD. 



[July, igi2. 



L.^lio-Cattleya Lucia. — This useful 

 spring-flowering hybrid is eminently suitable 

 for decorative work, the strong and erect 

 flower stems holding the blooms well above 

 the plant. The parents are L. cinnabarina 

 and C. Mendelii, and, as may be expected, 

 the seedlings have inherited much of the 

 Laslia habit of growth. Mons. Henri Vacherot, 

 Boissy-Saint-Leger, France, has raised a 

 large number of these hybrids, the range in 

 colour being remarkable. Those with yellow 

 flowers produce many on a stem, while those 

 having violet-purple labellums generally bear 

 two and three on a spike. The majority are 

 intermediate, being of a reddish-purple colour 

 with segments somewhat larger than the 

 L^lia parent. At the recent International 

 Horticultural Show a number of excellent 

 specimens of this hybrid were staged by 

 Mons. Vacherot, who was awarded a Large 

 Silver Cup for his exhibit. 



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Ophrys MUSCIFERA. — This very abundant 

 English Orchid, which produces its fly-resem- 

 bling flowers during the months of June and 

 July, is the subject of the following interesting 

 note by Jas. Batemaii in his " Orchidaceae 

 of Mexico and Guatemala." " A remarkable 

 circumstance connected with Ophrys musci- 

 fera has twice occurred m the garden of the 

 Rev. T. Butt, of Trentham, whose devotion to 

 the Orchidaceae of Europe and North 

 America is fully equal to that of some of his 

 contemporaries for those of the torrid zone. 

 The flowers of O. muscifera bear, it is well 

 known, a striking resemblance to a certain 

 (and that an uncommon) species of fly, and 

 some years since one of this description was 

 observed by Mr. Butt to settle for days 

 together on a blossom of the unconscious 

 plant, no doubt under the impression that it 

 was enjoying the society of one of its own 

 kind. Eor several summers afterwards, 

 although the Orchids continued to flower, the 

 fly was nowhere to be seen ; last year, how- 

 ever, it was again observed at its post, where 

 it remained, as before, for several clays in 

 succession." 



DeNDROBIUM FniBRIATUM. — Paxtons 

 Magazine of Botany for 1840 contains the 

 following : — Our London subscribers will 

 perhaps feel desirous of profiting by Messrs. 

 Loddiges' well-known liberality to visit their 

 collection at this period, in order to see and 

 admire a magnificent specimen of Dendro- 

 bium fimbriatum, on which about eight hun- 

 dred surpassingly splendid blossoms have 

 ju.st reached perfection. 



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NEW HYBRIDS. 



L.elio-Cattleya Cinnabal (Cinna- 

 barina X G. S. Ball). — The flower is an 

 improved Laelia cinnabarina, large and more 

 open in the lip, but four of the pollen masses 

 were large and four not quite so large, thus 

 differing from both Laslia and Cattleya. 

 Raised and flowered by E. F. Clark, Esq., 

 Evershot, Dorset. 



L/Elio-Cattleya Bedouin. — A grand 

 specimen of this new hybrid between L. 

 purpurata and L.-C. Hyeana was e.xhibited 

 by Lieut.-Col. .Sir George Holford at the 

 International Show. The plant carried 23 

 flowers. 



L.elio-Cattleya Henriett.e. — A new 

 hybrid resulting from the crossing of L.-C. 

 Henry Greenwood with C. Lueddemanniana. 

 The large flowers are of a dark rosy-purple 

 ccJour ; the lip having a broad front lobe of 

 dark purple. Exhibited by Messrs. Maron 

 and Sons at the International Show. 



Brasso-Cattleya Leonardi. — One of 

 Messrs. Maron's hybrids obtained by crossing 

 B.-L. Helen with C. Mossias. A large pinkish 

 rose flower, the labellum light rosy-purple, the 

 throat greenish-yellow. 



L.^:lio-Cattleya Marion. — By crossing 

 L.-C. Martinettii with L.-C. Clive Messrs. 

 Armstrong and Brown have obtained a good 

 flower of rich rosy-carmine colour with a 

 reddish-purp'.e labellum. The plant was 

 exhibited at the International Show, and will 

 grow into a .still finer result. 



Brasso-Cattleya Schillii. — A large 

 flowering- hybrid obtained by crossing B.-C. 



