BUDS AND STIPULES. 239 
The terminal bud is protected by each pair of stipules in 
succession. 
The axillary buds are protected in their earlier stages by the 
persistent stipules. 
Humulus Lupulus, x 3. 
Pilea grandis, Wedd.—The stipules are cordate, obtuse, red 
at first, then pale green, tinted with red along the middle, 
membranous, colourless at the margins, sessile, and completely 
surrounding the axis, until the latter thickens considerably, 
intrapetiolar and connate, persisting for some time. They 
measure 12-1-4 em. wide and 1-4-1-8 em. long. 
The terminal bud is covered by the stipules of the last developed 
pair of leaves; at this stage the stipules are nearly orbicular, 
rect, and face to face. The first or oldest pair of leaves enclosed 
7 them are conduplicate, slightly interlocking by their edges or 
*quitant, and occupy but a small portion of the space enclosed 
by the stipules, 
* axillary buds lie inside the erect base of the stipules. 
cored remain quite small and more or less completely 
i i ts, the 
latter being ey comparatively seldom elongate into shoo 
relatively few to a plant. 
Pilea muscosa, Lindl.— The terminal bud consists of a pair of 
