SEEDLINGS 



CHAPTER II 



SEEDLINGS 



I. Take some Peas which are just beginning to sprout, 

 and notice : 



1. What organ protrudes itself first from the seed-coats? 



2. Make sketches showing this. 



II. Take some sprouting Beans, notice the same point 

 and make sketches. 



III. Take some sprouting grains of Corn, notice the same 

 point and make sketches. 



IV. Take a pot of well-grown seedlings of the Pea and 

 notice : 



1. The position of the cotyledons relative to the surface of 



the soil. 



Dig up some of the seedlings carefully and 

 notice : 



2. That the cotyledons remain closely pressed together and 



within the seed-coats. 



3. That the caulicle remains short, but that 



4. A fairly long root (a primary roof) with branches has 



grown out and downward from its tip. 



5. That the plumule has grown out from between the coty- 



ledons and upwards into the light. 



