852 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



GERMINATION IN AMARYLLLDS. 

 By A. Wobsley, F.R.H.S. 



The fig. 191, B, I have inserted to show that the apex of the original process 

 issuing from the seed of Hymenocallids is not always simple. All drawings 

 I have seen depict a single root in prolongation of the alleged cotyledon. 

 Such is by no means always the case. Often Crinum Moorei seeds will 

 show no signs of any root whatever until the young bulb is formed and the 

 tissue of the seed quite dead. Shortly after this time (perhaps three months 



after germination) a number of roots will issue simultaneously. Even if it 

 is true that at the moment of emission from the seed the original process is 

 always simple, yet it may evidently become branched at a very early stage 

 in its career, or become abortive. Yet in many Liliacece, many annuals, 

 Palms, &c, this first root becomes one of the vital organs of the mature 

 plant. 



In fig. 191, C (Ismcne calathina), the termination of this process has, 



