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ON SEEDLINGS 



ovules erect, anatropous, surrounded at the base by a funicular aril, 

 cupular at first, but after fertilisation growing up and entirely sur- 

 rounding the seed. 



Fruit a capsule four- to five-celled, two- to five-seeded, as one of 

 the ovules, sometimes both, is always abortive, four- to five-lobed, 

 subturbinate, glabrous, green, becoming red as it matures, dehiscing 

 loculicidally. 



Seed obovoid, slightly compressed laterally, smooth, white 

 and shining, closely and entirely invested with a scarlet, slightly 



B 



c 



A, seedling. 



PIG. 243. Euonymus europceus. 

 Half nat. size. B and C, ultimate leaves, showing two shapes. 



wrinkled, funicular aril, which is attached to the oblong-linear 

 hilum stretching along nearly the whole side of the seed to the inner 

 angle of the cell ; raphe pale yellow, continued from the hiluin along 

 the broad upper end of the seed to the chalaza seated at the top of 

 the dorsal aspect. Seed albuminous. 



Endosperm abundant, fleshy, firm, and white, entirely surround- 

 ing the embryo. 



Embryo straight, flat, central, pale green, extending from the 

 micropyle to within -25 mm. of the apex of the endosperm ; cotyledons 



