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of our fibrous products, such as Bananas and Plantains, Bamboos, etc., 
to the extent of half a million tons per annum. 1 am tired and disgusted 
with seeing such an abundance of wealth wilfully wasted. We only 
require some good, cheap, and efficient machinery to set us a-going. 
Golden-veined Blackberry. 
I enclose an instance of variegation in the leaves of a Blackberry 
picked near here. They were marked in every manner of yellow, and 
appeared in the hedge where they grew to glfsten with bars of gold. — 
Brlmley Mar lay, Fine Aden, Tenter den, Kent, Jane 25. [The contrast 
of green and gold in the leaves was very beautiful. — Eds. Gard. Chron.] 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Pleurococcus Beigeli. 
I learn from a friend that the August number of the 'Journal of Botany ' 
contains a letter by Dr. Tilbury Fox on Pleurococcus Beigeli. I regret not 
having yet had an opportunity of seeing that number; and being detained in 
P aris by the International Medical Congress, will you permit me to say that I 
hope in next number to give you a systematic description of the minute Alga, 
and reply to any statements in Dr. Fox's letter, should they require it. 
Paris, Aug. 18, 1867. H. Beigel. 
In my Botanical rambles this month I have been so fortunate as to gather 
souie fine specimens of Utricularia neglecta (Lehm.) in the Gloucester and 
Berkeley Canal (where I also find in great plenty Acorns Calamus). I ha\ 
plant. 
tainly 
striated 
anastomosing bright red streaks ;" and this is quite correct, although his new 
Plate in Eng. Botany has them not. 
Gloucester, August 27, 1867. Gh S. Wintle. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Botajhoax Class— Edinburgh University.— Prof, ior Balfour has been 
good enough to supply us with the following particulars : — During the pttion 
