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deeply concave, and covering a considerable portion of the bud. 
The third (fig. 45), fourth (fig. 46), and fifth (fig. 47) are more 
oblong, gradually longer, each covering a large portion of the 
bud and overlapping the scale next above them. The fifth is 
more membranous and pubescent, remains alive during winter, 
and elongates on the resumption of growth in spring. It is 
strongly or copiously ciliate, but particularly above the middle. 
The sixth (fig. 48) is longer, but otherwise similar. 
The seventh scale (fig. 49) in an average bud is the longest, 
covers about 3 of the bud, and being folded over or round the 
top of the bud, all the seales that follow are slightly shorter. 
The eighth (fig. 50) is more narrowed at the base. All these 
scales from the fifth onwards are furnished with longitudinal 
slender veins, running almost parallel from base to apex. 
The ninth scale (fig. 51), in the bud from which the sketches 
were made, was divided halfway down, one lobe overlapping 
the other. Each half was furnished with a distinct midrib, with 
a few more slender ones proceeding from it. Here we have 
evidence of these scales being made up of two stipules. Other 
buds I examined contained several divided scales. 
The tenth node of the same bud bore two perfectly distinct, 
broad, oblong stipules, with a leaf between them (fig. 52). Other 
buds I examined showed that the fifth or often the seventh scale 
had reached this stage; so that individual buds vary according to 
“ze, vigour, and other circumstances. The stipules have a midrib 
and overlap one another. All the leaves are conduplicate, alter- 
hate, and distichous ; and as they lie against the sides of the axis 
with their edges to the sky, it follows that when figured on a flat 
surface their edges appear to be turned in opposite directions at 
‘ch alternate leaf. This is due to their distichous arrangement. 
ee eleventh pair of stipules (fig. 53) in the same bud were 
"y unequal, the outer being the larger, oblong, and having the 
i M the leaf lying beneath it as usual. The inner stipule 
n dug subulate, The twelfth pair (fig. 54) were also les 
near, The Loe one being oblong-lanceolate a ne A h 
pair (fig. 55 equalled its stipules in length. The and 
width " 5) and the fourteenth were unequal in length anc 
than ^ ut both linear. The leaves of these two were longer 
rump] ^r stipules, but the slender apex is sometimes, at least. 
pled up beneath the apex of the stipule. 
e larger of the two stipules of each leaf lies on the upper- 
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