one looks at the embryo from all sides; in my last letter the side profile was omitted. It is 

 namely so( in ourplants) that the stamina originate very closely to the sinus ofthe 

 corolla and a fold is enhanced on each side; thus, because of the thickened calyx, it 

 looks as if the stamen comes from the middle of the tube. Now for the most difficult 

 point: the number and shape of the embryos. This has really made me sweat because I 

 had in front of me the analytical drawings of the seed from all sides, which I had made 

 in 1849 and which already in the vertical sections showed me something quite different 

 from your picture. If I had had my books which did not get here to my exile for two years 

 and even so not all ofthem, then the disparity ofthe sections would have made me 

 notice that the structure ofthe seed was relatively unknown and I would have examined 

 it more carefully than I actually did. The few recent seeds that I still could find were 

 abnormal because of the weather but I can throw some light on the subject After 

 severßl tiresome analyses( because the Teste is not easily softened and when much 

 albumen is dissolved the embryo is changed.) I believe I have reached the conclusion 

 that in my Cuscutaae in the embrvo subsoirale conduolicatum more often we see 

 cruribus irreaulahter contortis so that almost every seed shows a somewhat different 

 formation and the Single 



