590 NATURE STUDY. 



grows downward, turning and twisting if necessary, length- 

 ens back of the tip, forms many branches. 



Step III. Pushing out of the ground. Both come out 

 with an arch, pulling cotyledons and seed-coat after them, 

 and slowly straighten, lifting up the cotyledons. 



Step IV. Development of cotyledons. In bean thick, 

 slowly shrivelling up ; in morning-glory leaf-like, turning 

 green, and forming leaves. Why ? 



Step V. Store of food. Both have it. How do they 

 differ in the position of the food and the way it is used ? 

 How alike in way of getting food from ground ? 



Step VI. Summary. Alike in being protected by coat, 

 in having a little plant or embryo inside, with a stem and 

 two cotyledons, and in having a store of food for the baby 

 plant. Alike in sending down branching roots to get water 

 and food in the ground, and in sending up green leaves into 

 the air. Unlike in way seed food is stored and in charac- 

 ter of seed leaves, or cotyledons. 



CHILDREN'S PAPERS ON GERMINATION. 



THE MORNING-GLORY SEED. 



" When the baby seed went to work for itself the mother fixed a 

 box of food for it because it was not old enough to take care of itself. 

 The food was inside of its little coat. We put the little seed in the 

 earth and we put water on it. The little seed drank so much water it 

 burst and the little stem and the leaves began to push out. The stem 

 came out first. The stem was bent over when it came out and it came 

 out to make a little place for the leaves. After awhile it straightened 

 up. I could see the little leaves. There was two of them. They 

 were green. They were doubled up. And at the end of them was 

 the little coat." JESSIE CARDWELL, 



THIRD GRADE. 

 THE MORNING GLORY. 



" The morning-glory seed is shaped like a quarter of an apple and 

 they are very small. The color of them is black. It is hard and 

 rough. 



