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seen them in Cepeew. With respect to their structure, many which 
I first dissected in 1790 at different periods of their growth from the 
distinct vessels near their margin left no doubt in my mind, that the 
great Mass consisted of a thick fleshy coat; and though these vessels 
had escaped one of our most learned Carpologists, Mr. R. Brown, 
when he published his Prodromus in 1810, he now owns in the 12th 
volume of Linnean Transactions that he has found them. His words 
r work eg * Semina bulbiformia Crini, Amaryllidis, 
Cislostisinó ti constant substantid organicá carnosá, ad ambitum sæpe 
virescenti, e texturd paa absque vasis spiralibus "conflatá, et utpote 
organicá atque intussusceptione crescenti vix. Albumen denominandá." 
In thelatter work, after to my am a giving me credit for an ob- 
servation which I never made “ that in some species the Seed separates 
from the Plant, and in n om the Perici Medici sso the embryo be- 
comes visible," he adds ** I have in another place, Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. 
p. 297, speaking of this sone which constitutes the mass of the Seed, 
and in a central cavity of which the future Embryo is formed, st tiled 
eae precedes the visible formation of the Embryo, I now find 
very dist nct spiral ves sels ; these enter at the umbilicus, ramify in a 
regular manner in the substance of the fleshy Mass, and appear to have 
a certain relation to the central cavity where the Embryo is virus 
formed, and which filled with a glairy fluid is distinctly visible befo 
the —— of the Seed. It 4s a curious consequence of this ni 
evolution of the parae which in some cases does not become visible 
unless the Seed be placed in a situation favourable to germination, that 
very different directions may be given to its radicular extremity, ac- 
es ** Birnum Wood to Dunsinane” he will never persuade 
me that we can give ^ * very different directions to the radicular extre- 
mity of the Embryo.” Many observations, lately repeated out of 
t to his authority, convince me that t. bulbiform Seeds, 
from being detached before their Embryo becomes visible, ad- 
nim to the dissepiments of the Pericarpium till it is not only formed, 
I have said under Carpolyza ** Semina diu adherentia,” they having 
continued upon the dissepiments in my Plant, perhaps owing to the 
coldness of our climate from December to March. Any which fall off 
without an Embryo, so far from acquiring one y soon 
decay ; and the only fact which I communicated to Mr. R. Brown 
respecting these bulbiform Seeds was, that if we fecundate the Stig- 
ma at a que period, they would often ripen, like the black crusta- 
ceous ones of Zephyranthee mentioned by Gartner, though their 
Puedes was cut off from the bulb when in blossom. The radicular 
