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Endosperm in the mature seed copious, fleshy, white, occupying 

 nearly the whole seed. 



Embryo small, straight, colourless, at right angles to the pla- 

 centa ; cotyledons broadly ovate, obtuse, entire, plano-convex, lying 

 in the broader way of the seed with their backs to the raphe on one 

 side and to the dorsal aspect on the other ; radicle oblong, obtuse, 

 pointing to the micropyle, but some little distance from the extreme 

 apex of the seed, slightly longer than the cotyledons. 



FIG. 565. Veronica hedercefolia. A, seed germinating : R, radicle ; ve, ventral 

 cavity of seed, x 4. B, another seedling, x 4. C, seedling, x 4, showing mode 

 of germination when the seed is well buried. D, another stage of C, x 4. 



Veronica hederaefolia, L. (figs. 564-66). 



Ovary with each of the two cells two-ovuled ; ovules peltate, 

 amphitropous ; micropyle superior. 



Capsule broadly obovoid or subglobose, turgid and slightly emar- 

 ginate, shallowly grooved along the side where the union of the 

 carpels forms a double partition, with a slender filiform ridge along 



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