The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Spiranthes

To the species and varieties described on p. 478-9, Vol. III., the following should now be added:

S. leucosticta (white-spotted). fl. green, with a brown-tipped lip, hairy; sepals lanceolate; petals linear, forming, with the dorsal sepal, the galea; lip ligulate, dilated in front, the apex obtusely triangular; raceme few-flowered. l. petiolate, oblong, acute, spotted white. Columbia, 1885.

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