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INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY.
Sessile, sessiles. Without any petiole. Most cotyledons.
Jointed, articulatce. Narrowed at bottom, and appearing
as if united to the blastema by a joint. Mespilus Germanica.
Indistinct, confluentes. Not narrowed at bottom, but
confounded together and with the blasteme. Compositse,
Nelumbo.
^ Hypogeous, hypogece. Remaining under ground during
germination. Graminese, ^Esculus.
Epigeous, epigece. Rising out of the ground during
germination. Abietidese, Faba, Mirabilis.
The t)ther characters of cotyledons are to be sought for
by considering them as leaves.
Primordial Leaves.
Folia primordialia. Those synall leaves which, besides the
cotyledo7is, are sometimes visible in the seed.
PiLEOLE.
Pileola. A primordial leaf, closed, and covering like an
extinguisher, the other leaves of the sprouting seed. Scirpus.
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Main Body.
Corpus Cotyledoneum. The cotyledonary massformed of
cotyledons closely united together.
Synzygia.
The place vjhere two opposite cotyledons are united.
Lobule.
Lobula. That cotyledon of two opposite ones which is
placedfarthest from the radicle.
COLEOPTILE.
Coleophyllum, (!!Ioleoptila. A small sheath formed by
the cotyledons, and surrounding the base of the plumule. Alismacese,
Liliaceae,
Seed Roots.
Radices seminales, Vasa mammaria. The small vessels
proceeding from the plumule into the cotyledons.