BRIEFER ARTICERS 
TWO INSTRUCTIVE SEEDLINGS. 
(WITH EIGHT FIGURES) 
Lupsock,* in his work on seedlings, mentions not a fe 
of lobed cotyledons, and of the appearance on such si 
trichomes of various kinds. The first of these peculiarities 
pubescence in cotyledons; these facts I present, together 7 
discussion of what they suggest. 
The cotyledon of Erodium cicutarium L’Her. (fig. 1 
petiole and an oblique base, the right side, as view ae 
being constantly higher than the lower. Into the lam 
tions project, the right one always remaining the more 
the normal condition for the species. But lobing 
further than this in the cotyledon, as seen in fig. 2, whet 
Tepresented is by no means extreme in this respect. Even 
lobing occurs, the two indentations noted in the 
still ai 
accounts very well for the oblique cosa but seems a 
ced the cause of saceroed —o in tae noe i 
"press it too ey ‘a i elas: at the adult po re 
divided, of i increasing complexity as one passes from 
early <i Ss —— it is someehe eee vely 
