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INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY. 
Sessile, sessiles. Without any petiole. Most cotyledons. 
Jointed, articulates. Narrowed at bottom, and appearing 
as if united to the blasteme by a joint. Mespilus Ger- 
manica. 
Indistinct, confluentes. Not narrowed at bottom, but 
confounded together and with the blasteme. Compositse, 
Nelumbo. 
If Hypogeous, hypogece. Remaining under ground dur- 
ing germination. Gramineae, iEsculus. 
Epigeous, epigece. Rising out of the ground during 
germination. Abietideas, Faba, Mirabilis. 
The other characters of cotyledons are to be sought for 
by considering them as leaves. 
Primordial Leaves. 
Folia primordialia. Those small leaves which , besides the 
cotyledons , are sometimes visible in the seed . 
PlLEOLE. 
Piled a. A primordial leaf, closed , and covering like an 
extinguisher, the other leaves of the sprouting seed . Scirpus. 
PI. 13, fig. 2 c. 
Main Body. 
Corpus Cotyledoneum. The cotyledonary mass formed of 
cotyledons closely united together. 
Synzygia. 
The place vjhere two opposite cotyledons are united. 
Lobule. 
Lobula. That cotyledon of two opposite ones which is 
placed farthest from the radicle. 
Coleoptile. 
Coleophyllum, Coleoptila. A small sheath formed by 
the cotyledons , and surrounding the base of the plumule . Alis- 
macese, Liliaceae. 
Seed Roots. 
Radices seminales, Vasa mammaria. The small vessels 
proceeding from the plumule into the cotyledons. 
