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growth after the terminal scar had been once formed are rather fre- 
quent in some areas, and are not rare anywhere. Probably the 
longer season southward, with abundant moisture, has consider- 
able to do with it. 
In the case of vigorous sprouts or shoots this tendency to re- 
newed growth is naturally emphasized, as already noticed in the 
case of the jack oak. New shoots from a hickory stump pre- 
sented another interesting phase of the subject. On the very 
same stump, with sprouts all of the same age, were found a few 
which had made their long growth during a single uninterrupted 
period. In one shoot the internodes moved closer together and 
the leaves grew smaller towards the middlle of its length, evi- 
dently preparatory to the formation of a terminal bud; but the 
shoot changed its mind, and the succeding leaves became more 
distant and larger until, later, the real terminal bud was formed 
considerably farther on. In another shoot the leaves were re- 
duced to scales towards the middle of the shoot, but the inter- 
nodes were still a little too great to admit of the formation of a 
scaly bud at this point. While in several cases the shoots had 
actually developed scaly terminal buds at one time, and later 
these had renewed growth; and, in a single shoot, growth had 
taken place spasmodically at three separate intervals. 
In the case of the black jack oaks which had suffered from a 
conflagration, and later had sent out shoots, the new branches 
were exceptionally vigorous. If a plant ever bears superposed 
buds it is almost certain to show them in such instances. The 
failure of these. shoots to show them makes, it very improbable 
that superposed buds ever occur in jack oaks. Instead of that 
was found what usually under such circumstances is the alterna- 
tive, the development of two additional but lateral buds. Since 
no evident leaves normally subtend the two lateral buds and the 
scales in oak buds represent only stipules, it was difficult at first to 
determine whether we have here a case of lateral dedoublement or 
of branching from the lowest axils of the central, usually larger bud. 
That the latter was the case was shown, however, by the presence, 
in several instances, of single full developed, large leaves in a lateral 
position at the base of the central bud, but subtending one of these 
lateral buds, while everything else about the various buds was in ee 
