224 STUDIES IN SEEDS AND FRUITS 



and occupying the length and breadth of the seed, are employed, seeds 

 such as those of Poinciana, Bauhinia^ Cassia.^ Ricinus^ and Hura. It is 

 shown that the embryo and the albumen go fairly well together in the 

 three conditions of the seed, and consequently in the shrinking and 

 sweUing stages, each of them taking its appropriate share in the 

 processes (p. 217). 



(22) Such a statement implies that the author, with the aid of the 

 balance, has been able to construct a complete regime for the shrinking 

 and sweUing stages of a dicotyledonous albuminous seed, not merely 

 for the seed in its entirety, but independently for all its parts : the coats, 

 the albumen, and the embryo. The materials for such determinations 

 are tabulated, and the seed of Cassia fistula is taken to illustrate the 

 employment of the data (p. 218). 



