cotyledons ?

[Una Smith]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, [iso-8859-2] Patrik Mráz wrote:

>Zahn wrote in his Hieracium s monograph work (1921):
 
>"Die primordial blätter (aus der Frucht) sind bei allen oder meisten Hieracien arten mindestens mit spälichen winzigen, hellen oder gelblich Drüchsen versehen".

>I would like to know if the term "primordial blätter" 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
	New Haven, CT  06520-8106