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presence of a rudimentary bud at the base, which is situated, not 
at the side as it would be if the scale were a single stipule, but 
(fig. 82) opposite the centre. 
Figs. 81 & 82. 
X4. 
14 nat. size. 
Spanish Chestnut. 
The following pairs are separate, hairy, and about as long n 
their leaf. The next leaf and its stipules are similar. The fift 
pair of stipules are narrower and rather shorter than their leat. 
The following stipules become quite narrow. The leaves are 
conduplicate. 
Oak, Quercus pedunculata, Ehrh.—The buds of l the Oak 
are even more complicated than those already described; t M 
(figs. 104 & 105) are a rich brown, and make a beautiful contra 
with the greyish-black of the stems. They are short and coni 
and the colour, together with the arrangement of the scales 877 
them a eurious similarity to a miniature cone of a pine- — ly 
The buds differ considerably in size, but are comparati 
short, broadest above the base but somewhat below the » ting 
covered with dry brown stipules, arranged in five imbri? 
