cotyledons ?

[Una Smith]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, [iso-8859-2] Patrik Mr?z wrote:

>Zahn wrote in his Hieracium s monograph work (1921):
 
>"Die primordial bl?tter (aus der Frucht) sind bei allen oder meisten Hieracien arten mindestens mit sp?lichen winzigen, hellen oder gelblich Dr?chsen versehen".

>I would like to know if the term "primordial bl?tter" means the cotyledons ?

Based on this sentence alone, I would guess the "primordial bla"tter" are
not cotyledons but rather carpels.

	Una Smith		una.smith at yale.edu

	Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Yale University
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