350 KirKwoop AND GIES: CHEMICAL STUDIES 
Fic. 5. Germinating cocoanut at the end of a year, showing plumule and roots, 
with husk little altered except where it was in contact with the earth. 
usually removed before the nut appears upon the market, is a 
thick fibrous layer comprising the exocarp, the epicarp consist- 
ing of a smooth, thin, tough coat of a brownish or grayish color: 
(See pp. 323 and 324). The endocarp, or what is commonly know? 
as the shell of the nut, is composed of three carpels whose lines 
of fusion are always apparent. The nut lies in the husk with the 
end containing the “eyes” toward the pedicel. Each carpel con- 
tains an “eye,” so-called, and under one of these three eyes, the 
