1918] Proceedings, 1918 71 



Notes on Buds. E. W. Gudgee. 



Descriptions were given of the buds of the Sycamore, Smilax, and 

 Sumac ; all of which are f onnd, not in the axil of the leaf, but under 

 the base of the leaf, and hence, when the leaf has fallen, in the leaf 

 scar. Attention was called to the compound flower buds of the Dog- 

 wood, Norway ^laple, and Azalea, and to the complex-compound or 

 mixed buds of the Sassafras and the Sweetgum. These buds being 

 terminal buds of woody plants, would check the gTOwth of plants 

 were not some method devised by the plant to prevent this. The 

 Dogwood and Norway Maple have two opposite buds below the flower 

 bud which develop into branches. The Azalea has a cluster of 

 lateral buds just beneath the big terminal flower bud, and these grow 

 out into a well-marked whorl. The Sassafras has in the center of its 

 large terminal bud a very small leaf-stem bud, while the Sweetgum 

 keeps up its excurrent growth by a lateral l3ud which develops below 

 the flower cone and forms a new branch. 



Entrance Requirements in Science at the State Normal College. 



E. W. GuDGEK. 



The entrance requirements at the State's College for Women have 

 recently been rewritten, and an attempt made to standardize them. 

 They are now as uniform as the subjects permit for all tlie sciences 

 accepted for entrance. Another ])urpose in working them over has 

 been to write them in sutfieient detail to eive the teachers of hijrh 

 school science in North Carolina some standards to work to and some 

 definite idea of the absolute amount of time required for a unit anil 

 the relative proportion of laboratory and recitation tinic In th(? 

 biological sciences, for the write-up of which the author is r«>sponsihle, 

 emphasis has been laid on the outdoor side of natural liistorv, and a 

 fair number of field trips in some cases will be substitntcfl for labora- 

 tory work. 



For all the sciences, em]>hasis has been laid on liow will llie snhjrd 

 has been taught and studied, and not on the (pjantity of space covered, 

 on the formation of habits of observation and inference, of concentra- 

 tion and clear ihiiikinir. 



