FORMS OF COTYLEDONS 



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Fceniculum (fig. 5), Coreopsis (fig. 6), Ceratocephalus (fig. 7), 

 and Ferula (in the hollow stalk, or ferule, of which Prometheus 

 brought down fire from heaven), &c., where the ultimate 

 leaves are much divided ; Platanus (fig. 8) and Acer (fig. 9), 



PIG. 9. Seedling of Acer Pseudo-Platanus. Half nat. size. 

 (In this and some other figures, one (or more) of the leaves is given in outline only.) 



FIG. 10. Seedling of Chenopoclium FIG. 11. Seedling of Eicinus sanguineus 

 Bonus-Henricus. Nat. size. One fourth nat. size. 



where the ultimate leaves are palmate ; and Chenopodium 

 (fig. 10), where they are more or less triangular. 



Some cotyledons are broad, in illustration of which I give 

 figures of Eicinus (fig. 11), Impatiens (fig. 12), Beech (Fagus) 

 (fig. 13), Brassica (fig. 3), Hippophae (fig. 14), Eiviiia (fig. 15), 



