Pig. i. Zea Mats (Maize). Seedlings attached to grain, showing the forked coleoptile and the 
plumule grown beyond it. E. J. Salisbury photo. Slightly reduced. 
distance from the apex (Figs, i and 2). The remaining organs of the seed- 
lings were quite normal. I have myself raised a number of seedlings (from 
seed supplied by Dr. Salisbury) which show the same feature of the coleoptile. 
[Annals of Botany, Vol. XXX. No. CXX. October, 1916.] 
The Morphology of the Monocotyledonous Embryo 
and of that of the Grass in particular. 
W. C. WORSDELL, F.L.S. 
With ten Figures in the Text. 
Abnormal Coleoptile. 
S OME seedlings of Zea Mais were kindly placed at my disposal by 
Dr. E. J. Salisbury, in a number of which (he himself has observed ten 
in all) the coleoptile was forked, or divided into two equal parts for a short 
