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dividuals. In the Gramineae, and there is reason 

 to suppose in various conterminous Tribes, these 

 individuals germinate from the kernelly substance, 

 which I have termed the Seminal Tuber. 



(b) In these plants, the Seminal Germ include* 

 the Scutellum or Cotyledon, and the Tuber, with 

 one or more bulbs, (one only being visible at first), 

 germinating from it, with their respective stems 

 •and radicles, (Plate XIII. fig. i. and 2.y 



