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crumpled from not having room to extend either longitudinally 
or laterally. They are obovate, very shortly petiolate, with two 
and three or three and four lateral lobes, with a terminal 
one, and are greenish yellow, glabrous with the exception of 
a few hairs on the midrib, especiaily on the underside, with 
a few small ones at the edges of the lobes beneath. They are 
accommodated in the middle line between the angles formed by 
Figs. 104 & 105. 
Oak buds. 
the stipules and by the thinning away of the edges of th 
and the lobes seem to favour their being crumpled laterally oT 
crushed together at the sides, as they have most room along the 
middle line. 
The hairs at the edges of the stipules serve to keep the bu 
compact, and to drain away moisture down the outside of tae 
same. The hairs at their base internally would fill up the spao? 
where the leaves become narrowed towards the petiole, 97 
would also serve to keep the young and tender leaves Wa™: — 
Lateral and secondary buds occur frequently in the lower pa” 
e latter; 
