BOTANICAL SUBJECTS. 



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Cross section of the same (Strasburger and Hillhouse, Fig. 65). 



given by Strasburger and Hillhouse (" Handbook of Pract. Bot."), 

 I cannot say that I find such essential difference between them, 

 even when examined microscopically, as to warrant their being 

 considered as other than one and the same thing. 



In the ordinary bud we find a number of bud-scales with the 

 growing point in the midst of them. In this monocotyledonous 

 embryo (Fig. 97) we find the same thing, («) is one bud-scale 



Fig. 97. Part of a grain of Wheat (Strasburger and Hillhouse, Fig. 112(/), 

 (a, b) bud-scales, (c) inner bud-scales, (d) growing point, (;•) radiele.* 



altered into a storage-scale, (6) is its atrophied opposite. What 

 the authors call cotyledons appear to be two inner bud-ycales 



* These are my interpretations, not the autlior's. Compare with similar 

 parts of tcrminnl bud of Euotii/mys japom'cus. 



