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8. The plant just 

 coming up. 



10. 



Tbe plant 

 straigbttn- 

 ing up. 



7. The operation further 

 progressed. 



9. The plant lib«T- 

 ated from the 

 seed-coats. 



see the plant in Fig. 7, as it was " coming up," it would look 

 like Fig. 8. It is tugging away trying to get its head out of 

 the bonnet which is pegged down underneath the soil, and it 

 has " got its back up " in the operation. In Fig. 9, it has escaped 

 from its trap and it is laughing and growing in delight. It must 

 now straighten itself up, as it is doing in Fig. 10, and it is 

 soon standing proud and straight, as in Fig. 1. We now see that 

 the reason why the seed came up on the plant in Fig. 2, is be- 

 cause in some way the peg did not hold the seed-coats down 

 (see Fig. 13), and the expanding leaves are pinched together, 

 and they must get themselves loose as best they can. 



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11. The true leaves developing. 12. Marking the root. 



There is another thing about this curious squash plant which 

 we must not fail to notice, and this is the fact that these first two 

 leaves of the plantlet came out of the seed and did not grow out 



