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ON SEEDLINGS 



Ranunculus Cymbalaria, Pursh. (fig. 125). 



Primary root elongated, slender, furnished with a dense tuft 

 of hairs at the base, and scattered ones, gradually becoming 

 shorter towards the apex. 



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FIG. 125. Ranunculus Cymbalaria, x 8. A, seedling, with the coty- 

 ledons still in the achene, Ac ; St, stigma. B, seedling three days old. 

 C, seedling thirty-nine days old. 



