April 1882. Page 4 (seq. 7)

Apr. 12th — Southboro.
I took down to Dr. Gray
this morning a box of young
seedlings of the Symplo-
carpus. I did not succeed,
while gathering them yester-
day, in finding any of this
year's sprouts. They were all
one, two or three years old
yet the seed was firmly
attached to the root-stock.
Dr. Gray told me that the
seed could remain on for
that length of time.
None of the seeds had
more than one plumule,
though they sometimes have
two or three. I examined
a cross section of a seed
and found it thus —

[drawing] It is exalbuminous
and the main part consists
of a fleshy, corn like coty-
ledon and radicle, with
the plumule opposite the
hilum — The structure
is curious and worth
careful study —
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Apr. 13th — Southboro-
This morning I went down
opposite the cemetary on the Cordaville Road and
dug up with a trowel 5
plants of the Symplocarpus.
Three of them I have ex-
pressed to Dr. Gray with
some sections of root stock.
I cut up one specimen
and saw the flower growing
in the axil of one of the
sheathes or modified leaves
Vide June 6th —