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plantae et radices quoqne procreaut liberas; illae igitnr altriei 

 plantae per to tarn Titam eonjunetae sunt* 



Quaraquam liarmn plantarom scmiiia imtrieibiis plantis vel 

 diversissinus mod is inspersi, germinationera observare nnffam 

 potiiL Itaqtie in memoriam rerocare inihi liceat ea quae 

 Vane her de plantis illis germinantitnis animadrertit. 



Hie enim Qrobanchearum scmina postquam Cannabis 

 plantulis inspersit, co modo dicit germinasse, nt Orobancheae 

 germinatae multis cum radicibiis in Stella c forma jn posUiSj 

 plantae nutria insiderent* 



Qua quidem germinationis ratioue Monotroya qiioqtie 

 gandere dicitur* Haustoria vero ilia non inveiiies. 



Simili autcm atqne in ill is quas attuli RMnanthaceh 

 modo, in alia quo que planta, iteqne annua, Lathracam wdft 

 cadem yitae ratio potest reperiri, id qnod jam Bowman* 

 accuraiissime exposuit *)• 



Lathraeae radices multis tnberculis sunt iustruetae, quae 

 nihil esse, nisi hailstorm ista, jam an tea explorafa, mifa i qui* 

 dem persuasnm habeo. Eadem igitnr Lathraca cum mitriri 

 plant a utitur eonjunctione. Quum ant cm Lalhraea per to- 

 lam vitam altriei cum planta cohacreat, il(a haustoria omni- 

 bus annis shmri cum foliis et florihns procreari Bowma« B 

 opinatnr; qnam scntentiam esse rcetam plane congenita* 



„The embryo stem, dicit Bo win aim, growth in a" 

 early stage contrary to the almost universal rule, avoids the 

 surface, and takes downward a direction in common with (k e 

 root. The intention of this is sufficiently apparent; for -when 

 once it finds itself among the roots and fibres of the tree, »* 

 uo longer continues to descend but spread horizontally, fix"# 



• ) Transact of the Ltan. tfoe, XVI, Novt>r, 1839. 



