210 MULBERRY 



ordinary lateral buds. Lenticels not numerous and usually 

 confined to near the nodes, which are solid. 



The stipules of the last leaf formed in autumn persist 

 after its fall as the cover to the terminal bud. On 

 removing this we find the next leaf rolled over its stipules. 

 On removing this leaf and its first stipule, the second 

 stipule is seen nearly surrounding the rest of the bud, 

 and so on, in a spiral of f. 



Each lateral bud shows an outer scale enveloping all 

 inside : inside this is another distichous with it : within 

 this another, and so on till about the fifth. These scales 

 are conjoined stipules. At the 5th or 6th scale the 

 stipules are becoming free, and show the leaves now 

 passing into the spiral arrangement. 



Morus, the Mulberry, has also large caducous stipules 

 protecting the bud (Fig. 22), and a white latex ; but the 

 buds are ovate, clothed with scales, and the twigs much 

 thinner. 



The terminal bud is rarely developed. The bud starts 

 with about 6 8 scales consisting of fused pairs of stipules, 

 the inner of which may be partially separated and show 

 leaf-incepts between. Then follow leaves with their 

 stipules, the former becoming larger in proportion to the 

 latter as we proceed with the dissection. The stipules 

 are so folded that the one next the parent shoot overlaps 

 the second one of the same leaf. 



Buds not long-pointed; leaf -scar not 

 circular, and vsit/i more than 3 leaf- 

 traces. 



Buds naked, very short, blunt ovoid- 

 conic, densely hairy, as are also the 

 twigs, and nearly surrounded by the 

 incompletely ring-shaped, or horse- 

 shoe-shaped leaf-scar, which has 

 numerous leaf-traces. 



