OF BUDS. 137 



JEsculus Hippocasta?ium, now so common 

 with us 9 though, as I have learnt from Mr. 

 Hawkins*, a native of Mount Pindus in 

 Arcadia, is a fine example of large and well- 

 formed buds ; and some of the American 

 Walnuts are still more remarkable. 



It has been already remarked, p. 90, that 

 buds resist cold only till they begin to grow : 

 hence, according to the nature and earhness 

 of their buds, plants differ in their powers of 

 bearing a severe or variable climate. 



Grew is elaborate on the forms of buds, 

 and the arrangement of the spots apparent 

 within them when cut transversely, which 

 indicate the number and situation of their 

 vessels. It was the character of this excel- 

 lent man to observe every thing, without re- 

 ference to any theory, and his book is a 

 storehouse of facts relating to vegetation. 

 Loefling, a favourite pupil of Linnaeus, wrote, 

 under the eye of his great teacher, an essay 

 on this subject, published in the Amanitates 

 Acadaniccc, v. 2, in which the various forms 

 of buds, and the different disposition of the 

 * See a note on this subject, which Mr. R. P. Ktiight 

 has honoured with a place in the second edition of his 

 poem on Landscape. 



