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b(*j»irt to shoot as soon as the seed is perfected ; it then forth* 

 « knot ou the line of life, breaking the two ends nearest the 

 wood, each of these ends generally becomes a separate bud, 

 and generates albumen all round it, while the old wood (aft 

 I have before shown) forms a vaulted passajre fur th€ budt 

 to travel on to their different cradles in the bark. 



The bud itself consists of the knot ; a little albumen ; two 

 or three leaves, which may well be denominated cotyledons, 

 as they are literally what cotyledons are in the seed, un- 

 formed leaves, covering the new and tender shoot, themselves 

 distorted and hurt by confinement, and, if long retained bjr 

 bad weather in the bud, the seminal leaves will increase as 

 in the seed. Over these is a scale; and this is all I have 

 ever been able to find in the bud of a tree, or shrub, before 

 it arrives at its intended destination ; afterward it gets leavea 

 from the bark, and more scales from the rind to protect it 

 from the cold. 



The second sort of bud is that found in herbaceous and i^ wrt pf bui» 

 annual plants, as all sorts of culinary vegetables, &c. Here 

 the line of life runs withm the pith, and is not so easily- 

 traced ; in many plants it crosses at every new shoot, and 

 stops the pith; in others, it meanders within the pith ia 

 different branches, running up.with each bud: but in all the 

 knot for the bud is formed within the boundary of the pith: 

 in some a number of buds follow in a string, in othersj little 

 bunches of buds shoot together. In the ranunculus^ poten-* 

 tilla, tormeniilla, &c., the contrivance is admirable; instead 

 of generating a quantity of albumen to each bud, a large 

 row of new wood is formed at the edge of the pith, in whieh 

 all the buds are inflated, and then they can hardly be said 

 to have any resting place or cradlet since they almost com- 

 plete their form as they are pushing on to the exterior, and 

 the wood being slight and made with divisions, which favour 

 the exit of the buds, which are but formed in the root, till 

 the growth of the branches transfers the line of life to a 

 higher points they then proceed from that part as in all 

 <Sther plants. 



The third are the palmate buds. This tribe of plants, 3d sort tf bu^, 

 from having no stem, naturally adopts another mode of 

 growth ; but it is simple and admirably accords with the 

 ^ B !3 other*. 



