THE SEED. 
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Write on all the pages of your note-book in this 
way, and keep it at hand for reference. 
EXERCISE XLIII. 
Parts of the Body, or Kernel. 
When you have carefully examined all the seeds 
you planted to find the parts that make them up, you 
will be ready to study one of these by itself. After 
taking off the skin or coat of a seed, look closely at 
the body of it. Begin with a well-soaked seed of In¬ 
dian corn. 
Compare it with Fig. 221. 
Is your seed narrower at one end than the other ? 
Fig. 221. 
a.— 
Are the two sides of it alike ? Is there a little pointed 
or rounded figure to be seen on one side ? 
Remove the skin and look carefully at the figured 
side of your specimen. Can you see a thick, lumpy 
body like the one marked a in the picture ? 
Try, with a dull knife or the finger-nail, to pry 
this lump out of its bed. If the seed is soaked to its 
center, you can easily do this. Look carefully at the 
hole it leaves. Is not its surface smooth ? Do you 
see any spot where the lump seems to have been 
