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GERMINATION OF THE CABBAGE PALM. 



15. Here we have the plantlet of fig. 9, increased in all its parts, open 

 and bent down by a side cut through the evolved part of the embryo 

 and its neck (collum), as far as (perducta) the inner part of the central 

 portion. What is here indicated, will be evident enough without a 

 diffuse detail. The body of the seed-lobe (cotelydori), seen to the 

 sheath expanded downwards a, into the coleorhiza, upwards b, into the 

 coleoptilon, is surrounded with the radicles, plumelets, and stem 

 (blastemati) which the dividing line c, marks out, into radicle and 

 plumelet. The same seed-lobe is confluent with the blastemati in the 

 primary nodule, which we may, with Richard, term syngygia. The 

 first leaves of the gemlet d, e, resembling- hairs, are perforated at last 

 by the central part /. 



Fig. 16. 



The plant in its second leaf. 



