. Magnolia campbellii leaves and seeds. Original caption: 'Plate V. represents a branch with leaves and ripe fruit; behind is an old leaf; to the left, two full-grown trees, sixty to ninety feet high, in leaf. Fig. 1. Seeds, of the natural size. 2. A seed. 3. Vertical section of the testa of the seed with its outer fleshy covering removed, showing inside the endopleura, containing albumen and embryo. 4, 5. Vertical sections of seed, showing the red, fleshy, outer layer of testa, the black crustaceous coat of the same, the albumen, and minute embryo. 6. Embryo :—all magnified. Published 1855. C
. Magnolia campbellii leaves and seeds. Original caption: 'Plate V. represents a branch with leaves and ripe fruit; behind is an old leaf; to the left, two full-grown trees, sixty to ninety feet high, in leaf. Fig. 1. Seeds, of the natural size. 2. A seed. 3. Vertical section of the testa of the seed with its outer fleshy covering removed, showing inside the endopleura, containing albumen and embryo. 4, 5. Vertical sections of seed, showing the red, fleshy, outer layer of testa, the black crustaceous coat of the same, the albumen, and minute embryo. 6. Embryo :—all magnified. Published 1855. Cathcart, John Fergusson (1802 - 1851) 387 Magnolia campbellii leaves seeds
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