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axillary branches always produce long internodes, the terminal bud of 
a non-flowering stem, whenever it develops, produces only extremely 
short ones, so as to be practically almost none (Fig. 8). This is a case 
never found by me in any other plant. 
The flowers of the May-apple are terminal. The flower-stems 
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may be entirely destitute of leaves, as was a specimen found by me 
last spring, and which I sent to Prof. A. Gray at the time of discovery 
(Fig. 9). During one hour this spring I collected within the same 
woods six specimens of b, innumerable quantities of c, the usual 
form, sixteen of d, six of e, three of/, and one of ^, a form in which 
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three leaves and the peduncle originated from the same point of 
stem. In each case the peduncle of the flower bent away from 
petiole of the last leaf; a fact which is explained by considering 
leaves of the ordinary bifoliate type as not being truly opposite, 
merely apparently so, from the close proximity of the one to 
other. The leaves are alternate, and the peduncle bends from 
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