sections can lead only to a few conclusions which through carefui Separation ofthe 

 undamaged embryo( which I did not devote myselfto) can be ciarified. 



I do not l<now if De$moulin$( in his Stüdes organiques sur les Cuscutes, 

 Toulouse 1853) has written about the agricultural properties ofthe seed; unfortunately 

 have I neither the Annales du Musee nor the Annalen der Wiener Musöen in which 

 Mirbel and Ungers write about the embryonal axis ofthe Cuscutae ; but I believe that 

 they say nothing about the seed because in later works the issue is still in the dark. For 

 myjustification I must ask you to read( review?) Reichenbach's Fl. 

 Germ.excurs.p.585-" ß. Spirolobeae seman ex-albuminosum, embryo spiralis. 

 Cuscuta utriculus bifidchdehiscensO)". 



Finally genera plantarum p.655' Capsula a circumscissa embryo filiformis, 



indivisus, circa alumen spiraliter convolutus, extremitatae radiculari icrassata infera. 



, Meissener pl.vasc. genera p.272 Stamina medio tubo inserta....albumen centrale 

 canosum. Embryo periphericus, spiralis, filiformis, individuus, cotyl.nullis(v. connatis?) 

 either I am blind or there is no albumen centrale in its proper sense in my Cxuscutae; it 

 also seems to me unlikely to occur becaue of the particular embryo formation It is 

 possible, that 



