C \ ' P R I P E D I U M (HYBRIDUM) EYERiMANIANUM Roifi.
It Is generally intermediate in charactcr, ihouRh ihe leaf has
f C. Spicerianum. Tlic petals are a little nearer in character
r c barbatum. The »1 '
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THIS distinct and pretty hybrid was raised in the collection of Messrs. F. Sander & Co., of St. Albans, and fiovvered for
the first time in November, 1890. On the nth of that month it was exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural
Society, when it received an Award of Merit. It is a very interesting addition, a.s it completes a .series of hybrids between
C. barbatum and a very natural group of allied species—namely, the one with green leaves and (normally) solitary
flowers, It comprises C. villosum, C. Boxallii (botanically, scarcely more than a variety of C. villosum), C, insigne, C.
Driiryi, C. Spicerianum, C. hirsutissimum, and C, Fairieanum. C. barbatum has now been cro.ssed with everyone of
these species, and has thus yielded the following series of hybrids (taking them in the same order as the specie.s):—
C. (hybridum) Harrisianum (and its varieties), C. (hybridum) apiculatum, C. (hybridum) Ashburtoni®, C. (hybridum)
orphanum, C. (hybridum) Byermanianum, C. (hybridum) Fraseri, and C, (hybridum) vexillarium, whose importance as
garden plants is now well icnown. The present hybrid is dedicated lo Mr. J. Kycrman, of Easton, Mass., U.S.A.
R. yl. Rolfc.
Our pl.-tic was taken from a plant «'liicli flowered in oiir cstablislimcnt.
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