THE BULBIFORM SEEDS OF CEKTATN AMARYLLIDE^. 93 



The germination of the seed as figured by Salisbury (fig. 22) and Richard, 

 and referred to by others, follows a course common to a number of 

 monocotyledons. F. E. L. Fischer, for instance (in his " Beitrag. z. botan. 

 System— Die Existenz d. Monocotyledonen und d. Polycotyledonen betref- 

 fend," published at Ziirich in 1812), classes, from the point of view of 

 their germination, Crinum and Amaryllis with fleshy seeds, with Phoenix 



Fig. 23. — Crinum capcme, Herb. 



1. Seed cut longitudinally, showing contained embryo— r, radicle ; c, cotyledon. 



2. Germinating seed — r, radicle ; c, cotyledon ; 6, first leaf of plumule. 



3. A. dry seed germinating on the edge of a board : the cotyledon has grown 

 to a great length, the first leaf of the plumule has not yet broken from the 

 cotyledonary sheath. 



4. Longitudinal section of the cotyledonary sheath showing also the long, 

 narrow first leaves of the plumule. The sheath which ultimately forms the • 

 outermost bulb-scale is already thickening. 



5. Sucker-like end of cotyledon which remains in the seed. 



(After H. C. van Hall, in " Tijdschr. v. Natuurl. Geschied." vii. t. iii. Leiden, 

 1840). 



and other Palms, &c., and says, " The peripheral end of the cotyledon with 

 the contained embryo protrudes from the seed and elongates worm-like, 

 more or less, often for several inches. The radicle elongates in the same 

 direction. . . . The place directly above the punctum saliens, where 



