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Cxiracis and Abstracts. 
ON THE GERMINATION OF TROP/EOLUM. 
Bv W. T. Tuisettoy Dyer, B.A., B.Sc., F.L.S. 
Last year, when looking through the drawings by Francis Banek i 
served in the botanical department of the British Museum, I was és 
with one which presented the germinating stk 
oiov the omi in a lette r 
he communicated it 
of the Royal Hortcultar Society. 
a notice from “M. J. B.," a well-known con- 
tributor, a in the “Gardener s Chronicle’ pi 
e the following remarks :— 
was stated some time since, at’ one of the 
inikaGie meetings of the Royal Horticultural — 
od that the seed of Tropaolum is endorhiaal. 
yy edd 
Tro elt” ewig sowed some seed, to see how the case pe 
true coleorhiza, x 3. If 
rom the source 
which it did, I felt that this view 
of the matter required considera! 
and I therefore also so 
an 
is perfectly 
but that the real phenomenon it 
` Section through the base of the embr 
jh the yo 
of Tropeolum, x 
edn Tabes from the 
the enlarg 
ge cotyledon 
a very minu ute 
closing the plumule, an 
mely short is 
radi 
