18 SHORT NOTES AND QUERIES. 
leaves from plats of Coleus growing ina pit dire garden at oua 
fi 
in all of them. In some the endochrome is coloured, in others partially — 
or quite colourless ; these last may in parting with their contents have 3 
coloured adjacent portions of the leaf. Though this is not sufficient proof 
that the d is produced by the fungus, the very irregular manner — | 
in which the Coleus leaves are coloured leads me to suspect that the cause 
may be a different « one from that which produces the more ri varie- | 
gation of Geranium and other well-known plants.—T. HowsE 
DRABA RUPESTRIS.—I have lately had an opportunity of exami 
the specimen sent by the Rev. W. M. Hind to the Herbarium y Ee 
College as Draba rupestris (see Vol. IX. :335), and which was y 
to have sprung up from a seed contained in soil brought from Bon "Bulben, 1 
Mr. Hind appears to have determined its name by the dangai process 
of exclusion. It is certainly only a large form of D. W. T 
THISELTON DYER 
CALLITRICHE OBTUSANGULA, Legall.— Mr. A. G. More records m. 
plant from ditches near Brading harbour, Isle " Wight, in the ‘Journal - 
of Botany,’ Vol. VIII. p. 342 ; “and I now find that I gathered the same - 
plant by Aldreth E in  Conbrdgeie, in J uly, 1855, but have neret a 
= satisfied of its tru e. It seems to be quite distinct from C. ver- 
b of More for a real addition to our flora.— 
pasee 
BETULA.—I have three specimens of a Betula from Ben Aven, Brae- 
mar, and Ben Vachart, near Struy (J. Hall), which do not well — : 
media or B. humilis, Colonel Brown, of Thun, in Switzerland, an | exo 
lent authority, named a plant of Dr. Balfour's, from Clova, i a 
(Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, i, 447); and I have long reeg that in some 
mountain 
Mr. 
Brit. 560) speaks of the „plants as “ error,” but does not give bis n 
either there or in Cyb. ii. 382, or iii. 507. The plants have Wes 
do with my attempted split t of B. nana adverted to in the same : 
. C, C. BABINGTON. 
