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leaves, face to face, and covering all the younger members. They 
unfold when about half-grown, and meanwhile the next pair is of 
some size. The internodes are very short, so that two or three 
pairs come close up to the terminal bud and afford some shelter. 
The axillary buds are developed in the axil of almost every leat 
and sheltered in the groove on the face of the pedestal in their 
early stages. 
The plant is slender, of delicate texture, and evidently adapted 
for growing in moist shady places, where it would be naturally 
protected from radiation. The small size and crowded state of 
the leaves would seem to explain the absence of stipules, as they 
shelter one another. Those of P. grandis are probably 50-100 
times larger. 
PLATANACES. 
As an illustration of the careful and effeetual protection of the 
young leaves in the bud, there is no better illustration than that 
of the Plane, Platanus orientalis, Linn.* 
Fig. 57 represents the terminal bud of the leading shoots and 
Figs. 57-62. 
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Platanus orientalis. 
57. Winter-bud, nat. size ; st, outer or first stipular scale, entire. 
58. sf, second stipular scale, glandular and slightly hairy, entire. 
59. sf, third stipular scale, very hairy, with a minute opening at the aper 
60. st, fourth stipular scale, very hairy, open at the apex ; /, the first leat- 
61. st, fifth stipular scale, now much shorter than the bud and open n " 
top, showing an inflorescenee, /; /",the second leaf, which is slight 
five-lobed. 
62. st, Sixth stipular sheath, now reduced to a narrow rim, hairy, 
spread open ; /""", the third leaf, which is five-lobed, with the two 5" 
lobes folded on the back of the leaf. 
and here 
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* Brief but excellent descriptions of the buds of this and the 528- 
species have been given by Henry, in Nov, Act. Nat. Cur. xviii. (1836) PP: 
534. 
