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CHAPTER XIV, 



OF BUDS 



Gemma, a Bud, contains the rudiments of 

 a plant, or of part of a plant, for a while in 

 a latent state, till the time of the year and 

 other circumstances favour their evolution. 

 In the bud therefore the vital principle is 

 dormant, and its excitability is accumulated. 

 The closest analogy exists between buds and 

 bulbs; and indeed the Dent aria bulbifera, 

 Engl. Bot. t. 309, Lilium bulbiferum, Jacq. 

 Fl. Austr. t. 226, and Gerarde emac. 193, 

 with other similar plants, as mentioned 

 p. 111, almost prove their identity. 



Buds of trees or shrubs, destined for cold 

 countries, are formed in the course of the 

 summer in the bosoms of their leaves, and 

 are generally solitary ; but in the Blue-ber- 

 ried Honeysuckle, Lonicera ecerulea, Jacqi 



