1895.] Deviation in Development Due to the use of Unripe Seeds. 805 
young plants, many of which still were to be seen as handsome 
trees in the grounds of the forestry school at Hohenheim, and 
in the vicinity, sixteen years afterward, when the paper from 
which we quoted was read. The economic importance of such 
a procedure, and its applicability to numerous contingencies, 
has brought the incident much well merited attention. 
It would be possible to cite many other instances’ of the 
successful germination of green seed, but it is unnecessary, for 
all doubt regarding the viability of such seed was set at rest 
long ago in the very exhaustive treatise upon the subject by 
Ferdinand Cohn, entitled, “ Symbola ad seminis physiologiam,” 
1847, in which he not only reviewed the previous serie but 
1 Waitz, with a glory Sarpi Meare Nil) Bot Zeit , 1835, p. 5 
Kunze, with wheat. Bot. Zeit. » pe! 
Kurr, with rye (?), ten-weeks- en Bot Zeit., xviii (1835), p. 4. 
Seyffer, with peas, kidney beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), English beans (Vicia 
Faba), soja beans, lentils, laburnum, Sophora pig Bot. Zeit., 1836, p. 84; 
Isis, 1838, p. 5. 
“‘Treviranus, with turnips and peas. Physiologie der Gewiichse, ii (1838), p. 
Girt, with rye. Bot. Zeit., v (1847), p. 386. 
Cohn, with. beans ( Phaseolus CRE lupines, radish ‘Shoke s purse, corn, 
sorghum, datura, apple, cucumber, canna, evening primrose, princes’ feather 
(Amarantus caudatus’, morning glory, (Ipomæœa purpurea), Salvia verbascifolia, 
pinks, squirting cucumber (Momordica Elaterium ), bladder senna : Colutea arbor- 
escens), marshmallow (Althæa officivalis), castor bean. Symbola ad seminis 
physiologiam, 1847 ; Flora, xxxii (1849), p. 481. 
Lucanus, with rye. Landw. Vers.-St., iv (1860), p. 262. 
Siegert, with wheat. Landw. Vers.-St, vi (1863), 
— Nowacke, with wheat. Untersuchungen über das Reifen des Getreides, 1869, 
p. 37. 
Nobbe, with spruce (Picea vulgaris). Tharander forstl. Jahrbuch, xxiv (1874), 
p. 203; Landw. Vers.-St.,, xvii (1876), p . 277; ; Handbuch der Samenkunde, 1876; 
p. 338. 
Sagot, with wheat (?). Arch. des. Sci, Phys. et Nat , 1876; Just’s Bot. Jahresb , 
iv, p. 1243. 
Tautphöus, with rye. Ueber die Keimung der Samen, 1876, p. 23 
Wollny, with winter rye. Forsch. Geb. Agrik.-Phys., ix (1886), p. 294. 
ey ant, with maize. Rep., N. Y. Exper. Sta, ii (1883), p. 39. 
roff, with tomatoes, peas, turnips, lettuce. Rep. W. Y. Exper. Sta., ii (1883), p. 
205; iii (1884), pp. 199, 211, 224, 232 ; iv (1885), pp. 130, 152; v (1886), p. 174, 
197. 
Atwell, with morning glory (Ipomea purpurea). Bot. Gaz., xv (1890), p. 46; 
Bot. Centr.. xlvi (1891), p. 162. 
Bailey, with tomato. Bull. Cornell Exper. Station, No. 45. 1892, p. 207. 
