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were made in the vicinity of New York City, at several points 
in New Jersey and at Woods Hole and the nearby islands on the 
coast of Massachusetts. Some fifty species of rusts in all were 
collected on seventy hosts. All forms were collected in duplicate. 
One set will be added to the herbarium of the New York Botanical 
Garden and the other will be sent to Professor Arthur. Some of 
the forms obtained are especially interesting and will prove a 
valuable addition to the collection in the herbarium. 
ere was also given by Dr. A. B. Stout a summary of his 
observations during the past year on bud variation in Coleus 
Blumei. In these studies two plants which produced bud sports 
during the autumn of 1911 were used as parents and cuttings 
from both the parent stock and from the bud sports were grown 
to determine the constancy of the leaf coloration and the tendency 
to produce new bud variations. 
The leaves of the parent plants have a color pattern of green, 
red, and yellow with the yellow strongly developed toward the 
margins of the leaves. On these plants, and on plants grown 
from cuttings, several branches appeared with the leaves lacking 
the yellow blotches. One parent plant has produced two bud 
sports, one with no yellow in the leaves and one with the leaves 
almost entirely red in color. This plant now possesses three 
different kinds of branches in regard to leaf coloration. 
One of the plants grown from the first series of cuttings has 
produced several branches bearing leaves with the green at the 
margin and the yellow in the center. The color pattern has been 
reversed. Two other plants have produced branches showing the 
color pattern arranged in the stem and leaves as a sectorial 
chimera. 
Living plants showing these different kinds of variation were 
exhibite 
Pedigresd cuttings of these plants will be grown for a continued 
and a more intensive study of the phenomena of bud variation. 
A. B. Strout. 
