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 ?

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Una Smith wrote:

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

...or leaves except carpels. 

Either way, I don't know of any botanical tradition in which cotyledons are
considered to be primordial leaves.

	Una Smith		una.smith at yale.edu

	Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Yale University
	New Haven, CT  06520-8106