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BOTANICAL NOTES FROM SOUTH BEDS. Oct., 1892. 
Lselia Dayeana—Mr. John Day, whose magnificent collection of 
orchids was at Tottenham; it is now sold. 
Phalsenopsis—butterfly plant or moth orchid, Indian Archipelago. 
Oncidium—tuberculous appearance, from the knobby protuberances 
in the blossoms. 
Calantlie—beautiful flower ; kclXos, beautiful; dvdos, flower. 
Aerides—air plant. 
Aerides Quinque Vulnerum—the air plant of five wounds, accurately 
describes the number of petals with their apparently bloody marks. 
Odontoglossum—tooth and tongue, so named from a fancied resem¬ 
blance in the blossom’s centre to a tooth and the likeness of the lip 
underneath to the tongue ; odovs, tooth, yXwcrcra, tongue. 
Lycaste—a lady’s name. 
Vanda—sacred mistletoe or tree orchid. The name seems to have 
come through the Sanskrit, Vanda meaning the parasite growing out 
of an oak, for the evergreen parasite growing upon and out of other 
trees rarely appeared upon an oak, and when this occurred a peculiar 
sacredness was supposed to attach to it. Vandaca, among the 
Orientals, was an oak. 
Cymbidium—boat-shaped ; Kv/m^ri, a small boat. 
Cypripedium—Venus’s slipper; kvtpls, one of the names given to 
the goddess Venus, because the island of Cyprus was an early and 
chief worshipper of this deity ; and -rrodeiov , a sock or little shoe. 
BOTANICAL NOTES FROM SOUTH BEDS. 
VOUCHER SPECIMENS ENCLOSED. 
Name. 
Corylus Avellana. 
Helleborus viridis ... 
Mercurialis perennis . 
Salix caprea. 
Ranunculus Ficaria . 
Petasites vulgaris ... 
Anemone nemorosa... 
Luzula pilosa . 
Nepeta G-lechoma .. . 
Caltha palustris . 
Viola Reichenbachiana 
V. Riviniana.. 
Prunus spinosa . 
Primula veris . 
Ranunculus auricomus 
Stellaria Holostea ... 
Scilla nutans . 
Crataegus monogyna . 
Date. 
1892. 
Aspect. 
Jan. 21 
Open 
Feb. 29 
Mar. 19 
S.W. 
„ 24 
Open 
April 2 
9 9 
„ 2 
1 5 
3 
9 9 
„ 3 
99 
„ 10 
S.E. 
„ io 
Open 
„ 10 
9 9 
„ 10 
9 9 
» 17 
S.W. 
„ 17 
9 9 
„ 18 
9 9 
„ 24 
S.E. 
„ 24 
W. 
May 5 
s. 
Locality. 
Hedge. 
Hedgebank. 
Moist meadow. 
Moist meadow. 
Coppice. 
Coppice. 
Bank. 
Moist meadow. 
Coppice. Few flowers. 
Coppice. Plentiful. 
Hill side. 
Hill side. 
Hedge, in Herts. 
Hedge, in Herts. 
Coppice, in Herts. 
Very warm position, not 
general till after the 
20th. 
Leafing of Oak and Ash.— Observations were made at 
frequent intervals, in fact almost daily, in portions of the 
three counties—Beds, Herts, and Middlesex—and it was 
noticed that Oaks were fairly in leaf during the third week in 
May, and Ashes not till the fourth. —Jas. Saunders, Luton. 
