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CHAPTER XIV. 



OF BUDS. 



VXEMMA, a Bud, contains the mdiments 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 prin- 

 ciple is dormant, and its excitability is accumulated. 

 The closest analogy exists between buds and bulbs ; 

 and indeed the Dentaria bulbifera, Engl. BoL t. 309, 

 Lillian bidb'iferian, Jacq, Fl. Anstr, t. 226, and Ge- 

 rarde emac. 193, with other similar plants, as men- 

 tioned/?. 86, 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-berried Honeysuckle, Lonicera ccerulea^ Jacq, 

 FL Austr, append, t. 1 7, they grow one under another 

 for three successive seasons, y! 24. The buds of the 

 Plane-tree, PlatanuSy Du Hamel Arb. v. Q. 171, are 

 concealed in the footstalk, which must be removed 

 before they can be seen, and which they force off by 

 their* increase ; so that no plant can have more truly and 

 necessarily deciduous leaves than the Plane. Shrubs 

 in general have no buds, neither have the trees of hot 

 climates. Linnaeus once thought the presence of buds 



