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SEEDLINGS. 



these volumes, some few of which figures, by the courtesy of the 

 pubhshers, Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner and Co., we are 

 enabled to present to our readers. To give an idea of the 

 thoroughness with which the author has performed his task, we 

 turn to the Berberide^e, and briefly abstract the general 

 description: — " The fruit of the Berberidese is a berry or capsule. 

 The ovules are two, indefinite, very rarely solitary. . . The 

 seeds contain a copious, fleshy, or somewhat hard endosperm ; 

 and the embryo is frequently small. . . The cotyledons are 



generally oblong, obtuse, shortly 

 petiolate or subsessile, deep green, 

 glabrous, sub-coreaceous, with a 

 few slender, ascending, and gen- 

 erally slightly emarginate veins." 

 *^The illustration. Fig. 42, shows 

 sections of fruit and seed of 

 Berber is aquifolium. 



Fig. 43 shows a young plant 

 of the same drawn natural size. 

 The cotyledons are described as 

 oblong, obtusely pointed, narrow- 

 ed into the petiole, glabrous, 1*5 

 cm. long, 5 mm. broad. Leaves 

 simple in the seedHng stage. 

 I. — Reniform, cuspidate, minute- 

 ly spinous-serrulate. 

 2. — Reniform, cuspidate, finely 

 spinous-serrate, fine nerved 

 at the base. 

 3-4. — Cordate, finely spinous-ser- 

 rate, fine nerved at the base. 

 5. — In a second specimen, un- 

 equally bifoliate. 

 6. — Trifoliate. Subsequent forms 

 three to five foliate, and ulti- 

 mate leaves 3 to 9 foliate. 



Fig. 43. — Berheris Aquifolium^ 

 natural size. 



Turning now to the CRUCiFERiE, we select as an example Fig. 

 44, which shows the fruit and seed of Ochthodium cegyptiacum. 



