100 PROFESSOR HENSLOW, ON A MONSTROSITY, &c. 



Fig. 36. One of these dissected, exhibiting a free clavate cellular 

 body within, resembling the columella in the theca of a moss, and 

 "here probably representing the nucleus of the ovule. 



Fig. 37. In this case the theca-shaped body was partially open 

 exposing the included nucleus. 



Fig. 38. This nucleus more highly magnified. 



These appearances surely indicate a development of the investing 

 coats of the nucleus into leaves ; but how far these developments 

 might be extended, and whether the nucleus itself is capable of being 

 further separated into a series of investing coats does not appear from 

 these specimens. 



J. S. HENSLOW. 



