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“ salicifolia” has narrow, . quite pcan: leaves. 
nother a h broad leaves 
round-tipped segments. oid: large-leaved eee entire and 
fringed, showed great es of cole Ens: The plants 
are grown for seed, and seed parents selec- 
tions are made with ant iclenence to leaf-shape and general 
abit of growth. In general no selection is made with reference 
to color pee and each type usually exhibits wide variation 
in this respec 
rom the foe of Coleus it seems quite clear that the 
mf 
the 
gated vegetatively in two main lines of descent for three years. 
The plants exited poe hele een and sudden 
mutations, giving a t d characteristically 
different color patterns. These involved increase and decrease 
e 
atterns in varieties of Coleus as a whole, the made ae of 
i te : ihe 
variations which appeared in the writer’ s cultu 
e were also variations, mostly ome nan in ie form. 
