Chrysanthemums. 



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figure 180 was very small, the little flower bud seen below it in the 

 picture may have actually reached higher up into the air than the 

 shoot A. The flower bud was then the terminus in the sense that it 

 was at the top of the stem. But it does not stop vegetative growth 



iSi.-A duster of terminal buds. Whichever one is saved beeomes the terminal bud 

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It does not mark the end of vegetative stage, and the beginning of the 

 reproductive stage of the plant's life-history. Not at all. But in 

 figure 181 the whole cluster of buds does actually stop the vegetative 

 phase altogether until the flowering time is over. 



