Edwards' botanical register, or, Ornamental Edwards' botanical register, or, Ornamental flower-garden and shrubbery .. edwardsbotanical29edwa Year: 1829-1847 77 purchased by Mr. Holford of Messrs. Rollissons of Tooting as Cycnoches ventricosum. Here it will be seen that fig. 2. is nearly Cycnoches ventricosum^ but its lip is here and there raised into warts, which are the begin- ning of the lobes of C. Egertonianum^ and moreover some of the dark purple of the latter is appearing at the base of the column and the tips of the sepals. At fig. 3. the purple of Egertonia- num is displacing the gre
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Edwards' botanical register, or, Ornamental Edwards' botanical register, or, Ornamental flower-garden and shrubbery .. edwardsbotanical29edwa Year: 1829-1847 77 purchased by Mr. Holford of Messrs. Rollissons of Tooting as Cycnoches ventricosum. Here it will be seen that fig. 2. is nearly Cycnoches ventricosum^ but its lip is here and there raised into warts, which are the begin- ning of the lobes of C. Egertonianum^ and moreover some of the dark purple of the latter is appearing at the base of the column and the tips of the sepals. At fig. 3. the purple of Egertonia- num is displacing the green of ventricosum, the sepals are rolling back, and the label- lum is almost wholly changed, but the sepals are still those of C. ventricosum. At fig. 4. and 5. the transforma- tion is complete. Another curious point in this instance is that the transforma- tions occur in no cer- tain order. The lowest flower on the spike. No. 1, is more Eyertonianum than ventricosum; the next above it. No. 2, is almost wholly ventricosum; that which succeeds. No. 3, is more ventricosum than Egertonianum; and 4 and 5, the last on the spike, are wholly Egertonianum. What with such cases as this, the Dean of Manchester's Narcissi, and the singular hybrids with which botanists are becoming familiar, all ideas of species and stability of structure in the vegetable kingdom, are shaken to their foundation.