THE SEEDS. «97 



ened and enlar^jed into a Seed-vessel, as In 

 Fin us, the Fir, 



in the most perfect examples of this kind 

 of fruit tlie Seeds are closely sheltered by 

 the scales as by a capsule, of which the 

 Fir, Cypress, &c., are instances, la the 

 Birch and Alder they have a kind of cap- 

 sule besides, and in the Willow and Poplar 

 a stalked bivalve capsule, still more sepa- 

 rate from the scales. The Plane-tree, Pla- 

 tauus, the IJquidambar mid the Comptoma^ 

 have globular catkins, in which bristles or 

 tubercles supply the place of scales. See 

 Goirtner, t. ^i). 



€. Semi N A. The Seeds are the sole *' end 

 and aim" of all the organs of fructifi- 

 cation. Every other part is, in some man- 

 ner, subservient to the forming, perfect- 

 ing, or dispersing of these. A seed con- 

 sists of several parts, some of which are 

 more essential than others, and of these I 

 shall speak first. 



Embryo,/. 2, 4, the Embryo, or Germ, 

 is the most essential of all, to which the rest 

 are wholly subservient, and without which 



