22 HEDWIG ON THE ORGANS OF 



The roots have no pores, nor have the 

 scales of the bulbs of liliaceous plants. The sti- 

 pules and bractes, the membranous excepted, and 

 such as drop off very quickly, are furnished with 

 them as well as the leaves. They have not been 

 discovered on fleshy fruits, such as pears, peaches, 

 gooseberries, though found on several pericarps 

 not succulent (as in those „of Coluteas, &c.) and 

 upon the fruits of most of the monocotyledonous 

 plants. There are none upon the membrane 

 covering the seeds, but upon all seminal leaves, 

 except the fleshy seed-lobes of beans, peas, and 

 the like, 



M. Decandolle further observes, that , those 

 plants which are really acotjledonous, such as 

 Fungi, Lichens, Hepaticag and Fuci, are totally 

 destitute of cortical pores. Indeed, according to 

 him, these vegetables are without any ecorcc, and 

 perhaps even without the fine epidermis : which 

 he thinks may account for a number of the Fungi 

 decaying so very fast. Hence it is also that the 

 J-lcpaticse fill themselves with water as soon as 

 immersed, and that coloured liquors are so easily 



