rate it anywhere when choosing a device.

Finally, 'time was up.' To wait longer would be sacrificing the great heap
of treasures secured. After shipping them he might return. It was a sad
disappointment after such reasonable hopes, but things might have been
worse. So Ericsson gave orders to pack and start as soon as possible. When
all was ready, on the very evening before departure, one of the local
assistants brought him a flower. This time it was right. In three days
several thousand plants had been collected, and Ericsson went his way
rejoicing.

No reader, I hope, will fancy that these coincidences are invented. The
story would be childish as fiction. It is literal fact, and therefore only
is it worth telling.

[Illustration: CYPRIPEDIUM x ROTHWELLIANUM.]

CYPRIPEDIUMS--_Continued_

_William Lloyd_ (bellatulum x Swanianum).--The white crest of the dorsal
rises from a dull crimson blur with greenish centre, overrun with crimson
lines. The petals have a dull crimson ground, paler below, densely
speckled with maroon, the ends just tipped with white. Slipper, shining
maroon.

_A de Lairesse_ (Curtisii x Rothschildianum).--The fine dorsal is white,
with a greenish centre and faint purple edges, the lines clear purple.
Petals long and drooping, pale green, edged with white; all covered with
purple spots. Slipper, ochreous brown.

_Juno_ (Fairieanum x callosum).--The broad white dorsal, green at base,
tinged with purple, and strongly scored with purple lines, is actually the
widest part of the flower, as in Fairieanum. The narrow petals curl down
close upon the slipper, green in paler and darker shades, with bunches of
purple hair, like those on a caterpillar, at the edges, and pale purple
tips. Slipper, dusky greenish with brown lines.

_Saide Lloyd_ (venustum x Godefroyae).--Dorsal small, bright green with
darker lines. Petals purplish above, greenish below, speckled with small
dots of crimson and strong spots of maroon. Slipper, ochreous yellow,
dotted with crimson at top and netted with green.

_Cymatodes_ (Curtisii x Veitchii).--The fine dorsal is green, fading to
white, with a pretty narrow edging of pink, and boldly ribbed. The
petals, dark at base, change to green, and towards the tips have an edging
of profuse crimson specks. The slipper, very wide at the mouth, is
greenish.

_Dauthierii albino._--A wonderful sport. Up the grass-green dorsal, edged
with white above, run strong lines of dark