d'Hist.

Nat.

tome 8 page 241 et seq.) It is remarkable that neither of these observers should have noticed the foramen in the testa.

And as they do not even mention the well-known essays of MM.

Turpin and Auguste de St.Hilaire on the micropyle, it may be presumed that they were not disposed to adopt the statements of these authors respecting it.
Professor Link, in his Philosophia Botanica, published in 1824, adopts the account given by Treviranus, of the coats of the ovulum before impregnation:* and of M.Turpin, as to the situation of the micropyle, and its being the cicatrix of a vascular cord.