Thanks JL for identifying Catasetum saccatum.
Writes of his interest ("more than almost anything in my life") in orchids, but fears he is rash to publish.
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Thanks JL for identifying Catasetum saccatum.
Writes of his interest ("more than almost anything in my life") in orchids, but fears he is rash to publish.
Sends thanks for an informative letter;
would be grateful for any orchids; names some he would particularly like.
CD is sending an orchid flower; asks JL to identify it.
Also asks if JL can spare a dried flower of another orchid (name forgotten) [which CD describes] so that he can try to trace its ducts or spiral vessels.
CD sends thanks for many valuable dried specimens [of orchids]. Has been promised Catasetum and some Dendrobium by Mr Rucker; has written also to Lady Dorothy [Nevill].
Lady Dorothy [Nevill] has written very obligingly and sent a lot of orchids.
Thanks JL for a flower of Bolbophyllum, a genus that puzzles him.
Recent work has convinced him a number of orchids are male. Points out that JL [in The vegetable kingdom (1846), pp. 177–8] "accidentally misquoted" R. H. Schomburgk on this point.
Delayed thanking JL for two notes until he heard from Hooker about Acropera luteola; had no idea A. luteola was not a well-known name.
Cites his reasons for identifying A. loddigesii as male; hopes for a Gongora flower from Hooker which, JL suggested, may be the female.
Thanks JL for information about Acropera luteola.
Also thanks for the Gongora; cannot avoid the impression it is male.
Thanks JL for review [of Orchids, Gard. Chron. (1862): 789–90, 863]; CD published almost by accident, having been led on in part by encouragement from JL.