All the flowering plants in the world belong to one of these groups, so that merely to see the germinating seed tells the story at once.
Guppy, from whom much of the above data are taken and who has experimented for years on the buoyancy and germinating power of sea-borne seeds, reckons about two hundred species that may have spread by ocean currents.
The number of seeds that will float in sea water and still keep the power of germinating is not very great.
Evidently here the germinating embryo is principally fed by one of the leaf-like cotyledons, the other being out of contact with the supply.
Germinating Embryo supplied from a Deposit outside of Itself.
Germinating Maples= are excellent to begin with, the parts being so much larger than in Flax that a common magnifying glass, although convenient, is hardly necessary.
In a conservatory they may be found germinating on a damp wall or on the edges of a well-watered flower-pot.
Investigation of this prothallus under the microscope resulted in the discovery of a wholly unsuspected kind of fertilization, taking place at this germinatingstage of the plant.
In both forms this concentrated food for thegerminating plant is food also for man and for animals.
Viviparous, sprouting or germinating while attached to the parent plant.
A germinating seedling of the same, its plumule developed into the first four leaves (alternate), the first one rudimentary, the cotyledon remains in the seed.
Germinating Onion, more advanced, the chink at base of cotyledon opening for the protrusion of the plumule, consisting of a thread-shaped leaf.
Plumule, the bud or first shoot of a germinating plantlet above the cotyledons, 13.
Germinating Embryo supplied by its own Store of Nourishment=, i.
Germinating plants are very easy of observation on this point.
But even for this purpose the protection is not sufficient, as the nuts often suffer from falling to such a degree as to be badly injured as to their germinating qualities.
Seedling variations afford a means of counting many hundreds of individuals in a single germinating pan.
Seeds, germinating in such little moist depressions grow regularly and rapidly, while those on the dryer elevations may be retarded for hours and days, before fully unfurling their seed-leaves.
On bad soil, or if germinating too late, when the season is drier, they remain very small, producing only a few leaves and often limiting themselves to one flower-head.
A spore is a minute cell containing a nucleus or living germ, the reproductive cell germ called by some authors the germinating granule.
Mycelium, the delicate threads proceeding from the germinating spores, usually white and popularly termed spawn.
But there is another most interesting thing about this germinating seed.
Radish seedsgerminating between blotting-paper and the side of a tumbler.
In the latter cases the radicles in growing downwards were deflected only a little from the direction which they had followed whilstgerminating in sawdust, and they pressed lightly on the glass-plates (Fig.
In our experiments we followed Sachs' plan, and sieves with seedsgerminating in damp sawdust were suspended so that the bottom was generally inclined at 40o with the horizon.
Having made these few preliminary remarks, we will in imagination take a germinating seed, and consider the part which the various movements play in the life-history of the plant.
Whether this can be of any service to them is very doubtful, but with seeds germinating on the surface it will slightly aid geotropism in directing the radicles to the ground.
Germinating seeds were placed in a tin box, kept moist internally, with a sloping bank of damp argillaceous sand, on which four smoked glass-plates rested, inclined at angles of 70o and 65o with the horizon.
The large seeds of this plant in germinating first protrude a single leaf, which breaks through the ground with the petiole bowed into an arch and with the leaflets involuted.
Another germinating seed was turned upside down and covered with damp sand; and a filament was fastened to the radicle so as to project at an angle of about 50o above the horizon; this radicle was .
Observations were made only on the movements of the radicles from germinating acorns, which were allowed to grow downwards in the manner previously described, over plates of smoked glass, inclined at angles between 65o and 69o to the horizon.
In all the germinating seeds observed by us, the first change is the protrusion of the radicle, which immediately bends downwards and endeavours to penetrate the ground.
That they should have “impressed him so forcibly,” as Böhmer rightly remarks, was largely owing to the fact that his ear caught in them echoes of the ideas germinating in his own mind.
Germinating Romanticism was not less ardently opposed by the political opposition (who saw in the young school a support of ecclesiasticism) than by the men who from principle adhered to old tradition.
The behavior of children at school, which is so often mysterious to the teacher, ought surely to be considered in relation with their germinating sexuality.
Whenever practicable, seed-beds of celery and other slow-germinating seeds should be shaded.
Special care should be exercised not to sow very small and slow-germinating seeds, as celery, carrot, onion, in poorly prepared soil or in ground that bakes.
His water cultures were made under sterile conditions, the seeds when possible being sterilised with corrosive sublimate, the germinating apparatus being also sterilised.
But he found that this difficulty was overcome by the spores which had been licked from the skingerminating in the gastric juice of the animal's stomach, and, when voided in the excreta, infecting a new host by accidental contact.
They died, but he kept the soil moist on the chance of germinating seeds.
This preliminary cleaning is most important as impurities reduce the germinating power of the grain, as well as introduce bacteria inimical to fermentation.
For storing roots, especial care should be taken to prevent their germinating and throwing out fresh tops, which is best done by selecting a dry place for the storage ground.
Barley on harvesting has but slight germinating power.
One expected to find him nervous, introspective, to discover that his mental life was not at all the result of impressions and sensations that came to him from without, but rather of thoughts and reflections germinating from within.
The little seed long planted, germinating in the deep, dark furrows of the soil, straining, swelling, suddenly in one night had burst upward to the light.
The seed is placed in the soil; shade is always--absolute darkness sometimes--necessary for the success of the germinating process.
At a temperature below the freezing point, seeds will not germinate; at the boiling point of water, a chemical change is produced in the grain, and its power of germinating is destroyed.
The radishes mark the rows, so that they may be cleared of weeds, and the ground stirred before the plants would otherwise be discernible, and also shade the germinating seeds and the young plants from destruction from a hot sun.
Cotton-seed, without extra care in drying, has moisture enough to make it heat in bulk, by which its germinating power is greatly impaired.
Soil left in coarse lumps or particles gives the air too much action on the germinating seeds and young plants, and retards and stints their growth.
Associated with these, but formed earlier, and germinating immediately, are often to be found large single-celled spores, borne on long stalks.
The spores may be sown in a little of the sugar solution in any convenient vessel, or in a hanging drop suspended in a moist chamber, as described for germinating the spores of the slime moulds.
After fertilization the outer cells of the oögonium become very hard, and the whole falls off, germinatingafter a sufficient period of rest.
As the planting of poor seed is often the cause of much disappointment, it is well to test the germinating power of the different varieties to be planted.
Set five such plants in moist sand and also five germinating seeds not so dissected.
The pupils should watch the development ofgerminating grains, such as corn and beans, germinated in the same way as in the last exercise.
It was traceably germinating in the schoolboy; it was manifestly present in his mind at the very last moment of his adventurous life.
He extolled the "germinating disorder" of Moscow far above the "implacable discipline" of Berlin.
Its ideal place for germinating is on muddy shores and wet flats.
The great differences in the germinatinghabits of trees are remarkable.
Not only do many wild plants exhibit a remarkable facility of accommodation, but their seeds usually possess great tenacity of life, and their germinating power resists very severe trials.
Much good work has lately been done in School Gardens, under expert advice, in germinating the seed in damp sand.
The foregoing methods have to a great extent been superseded by that of germinating the seed in damp sand and sowing direct in the field in properly prepared holes.
If the seed contain them and have not lost its germinating properties, these worms will be found again in the grain.
Place like a bean seed with the germinating end in the soil.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "germinating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
