ON THE RESERVE PROTEIN IN PLANTS. 
95 
UMBELLI FERAE. 
Species. 
♦ 
Objects tested. 
Active 
albumen. 
Remarks. 
Daucus carota. 
Nerves of leaves. 
Present. 
Thorylis anthriscus. 
Nerves of leaves. 
Present. 
ILICINEAE. 
Ilex pedunculosa. 
Young leaves. 
Present. 
No starch. 
Flowers. 
Present. 
No starch. 
LINACEAE. 
Reinwardtia trigyna. 
Young leaves. 
None. 
Little starch. 
Flowers. 
None. 
Little starch. 
CELASTINEAE. 
Evonymus japonicus. 
Young leaves. 
None. 
Little starch. 
Leaves suffering from 
albinism. 
None, 
Little starch. 
Elowers. 
Present. 
Little starch. 
From these tables it will be seen that of 104 species, of 
plants, 51 contained albumen stored up, in one part or another, 
active while 53 did not contain it at all. 
The plants examined belonged to 52 families. 
The active albumen was found in 29 families. 
It is of physiological interest to see how the active albumen 
often accumulates in the flowers and that in such cases it may 
be absent in the green leaves or decrease in those parts that 
are nearest to the flower (compare the above observations with 
Punica Granatum , Nandina domestica, Evonymus japonica and 
Fagopyrum esculentum). In Gramineae I found active albumen 
thus far only in the epidermis of seeds and only in a certain 
period of development. 
