I] YOUNG PLANTS 7 



by the earlier botanists the Plumule, and the somewhat 

 fanciful name has been preserved. 



Here, then, we have sketched out as it were the 

 architecture of the young shoot-system. This grows out 

 by the elongation of its internodes, and the expansion of 

 its leaves, and soon reaches a stage comparable to that 

 shown in Fig. 2 A. At the end of its growth for the season, 



A. B. 



Fig. 2. A. Shoot of seedling such as that in Fig. 1, at end of first 

 year, a last leaves expanded ; B terminal bud ; b buds in axils of coty- 

 ledons ; c scars of fallen cotyledons. B. Shoot of seedling such as that 

 in A, after it has shed its leaves, and passed into the stage of winter rest. 

 c scars of the fallen cotyledons, with their axillary buds b ; 1 3 lateral 

 buds in the axils of successive leaves which have fallen and left scars. 

 B terminal bud. 



the leaves fall, and the shoot becomes a twig, as in Fig. 

 2 B, and rests through the winter. In the ensuing spring 

 growth is renewed, and in process of time the terminal 



