. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. MORPHOLOGY CHAPTER II THE SEED Ordinarily plants are seen to spring from seeds. It would therefore be natural to begin the study of morphology with the examination of seeds. First of all, let us take a chhola, boot, or Gram (fig. 6) and examine its parts. For the purpose of. h—4- Fig^. 6.—Chhola, Boot, or Gram Seed (Cicef arietinurn) w, Micropyle. h, Hilum. t. Testa removed, c, Cotyledons. Tt Radicle. ^, Plumule. examination it would be convenient to take a chhola which has been kept soaked in water for about twelve hours. Externally the seed is pointed, an
. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. MORPHOLOGY CHAPTER II THE SEED Ordinarily plants are seen to spring from seeds. It would therefore be natural to begin the study of morphology with the examination of seeds. First of all, let us take a chhola, boot, or Gram (fig. 6) and examine its parts. For the purpose of. h—4- Fig^. 6.—Chhola, Boot, or Gram Seed (Cicef arietinurn) w, Micropyle. h, Hilum. t. Testa removed, c, Cotyledons. Tt Radicle. ^, Plumule. examination it would be convenient to take a chhola which has been kept soaked in water for about twelve hours. Externally the seed is pointed, and slightly bent at one end and rounded at the other. From the pointed end, along the concave side of the seed, there is a well-marked line. Just below the pointed end there is a prominent dark-coloured round pit, the micropyle (ot), on the line, and farther down a dark- coloured scar, the hilum (Ji), on the same line. The scar marks the point where the seed was attached to the seed-vessel or fruit, and the pit marks the spot from which, as you will see presently, the primary root comes out on Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bose, G. C. London, Blackie & Son Ltd.
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