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Title: The Woodlands orchids described and illus. with stories of orchid collecting
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Boyle, Frederick, b. 1841
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Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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ed carmine. Amphion (Harrisianum x Lawrenceanum).—The granddorsal sepal—greenish-yellow, dotted and ribbed with copperybrown — has a broad white margin. Petals narrow andbowed, greenish at base, changing to copper ; a few heavydots. The slipper coppery. Cowleyanum (Curtisii x niveum). — Dorsal low andspreading, purplish and lined with purple ; the edges white.Petals purple, very much darker at base and tips, with awhite outline above, and tiny speckles of purple. Purpleslipper. Conco-Lawre (concolor x Lawrenceanum).—Dorsal large,suffused and lined with purple, edged white. Petals greenat base, margined and lined with crimson, with a few dots ofchocolate. Slipper purplish above, greenish below. 182 THE WOODLANDS ORCHIDS Curtisii (Woodlands variety) does not depart from theordinary form in its scheme of colouring, but all the huesare intensified, and the enormous slipper, tinged with greenat the edge, is deepest crimson-maroon. I may interrupt the dry enumeration with a story.
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CYPRIPEDIUM y WILLIAM la-OVD CMKOhie* 9, MAOrAKLAME Pbinteo ih Lomuon . STORY OF CYPRIPEDIUM CURTISII My tales do not commonly bear a moral. If one theyhave It is apt to be such as grandmamma teaches—foresight,perseverance, the habit of observation. Those virtues needno finger-post. They are illustrated by the story of Cypri-pedium Curtisii, and rewarded there, as they should bealways, by a notable instance of luck. I have not heard ofany special circumstances attending the first discovery ofthis plant. It was found in Sumatra by Mr. Curtis, travel-ling for Messrs. Veitch, in 1882 —a large green flower,margined and touched here and there with white, the pouchvinous purple. This brief and vague description may sufficefor readers who take more interest in romance than inorchidology. Mr. Curtis did not tell the world at largewhere he found the treasure. It was his intention, doubtless,to work the mine himself But after sending home the firstfruits, he was offered the Directorship of

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