192 THE VEGETABLE WORLD. 
Flowering Cane. In the last case the embryo appears outside, 
through an opening very regularly cut out in the integument 
covering the seed. This opening is hidden at first by a sort of 
dise, or lid, which the little root of the embryo lifts up in order 
to make its way out and bury itself in the ground. 
—~ Fig. 285 shows 
the successive stages 
through which a ger- 
minating seed of the 
Sugar Cane passes. 
The little lid is lifted 
up and east aside (1) ; 
mule, or bud, sallies 
out from the opening 
of the cotyledon, which 
is transformed into @ 
sheath (4); the radicle 
: in size, 
formed (6). The seeds 
of mostof the monoco- 
é = = 5 tyledonous plants a 
i. 296.— Germ ae ided with albu- 
Fig. 236.—Ge 0 se wr Ut sive, BLOW = 
"Dotpledione which tise ate stem. me, men, and at the time 
of germination the cotyledonous limb remains shut up in a 
seed, as we see in the Palms, Flowering Cane, and Virginia 
Spider-wort. 
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a 
4 
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ground (3) ; the gem . 
(5); the stalklet 
