Note 14 — Chapter II · GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS ON THE MOVEMENTS AND GROWTH OF SEEDLING PLANTS.
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In Pachira aquatica, as described by Mr. R. I. Lynch (‘Journal Linn. Soc. Bot.’ vol. xvii. 1878, p. 147), one of the hypogean cotyledons is of immense size; the other is small and soon falls off; the pair do not always stand opposite. In another and very different water-plant, ‘Trapa natans’, one of the cotyledons, filled with farinaceous matter, is much larger than the other, which is scarcely visible, as is stated by Aug. de Candolle, ‘Physiologie Veg.’ tom. ii. p. 834, 1832.