22 FOUNDATIONS OF BOTANY 
The plumule is the first terminal bud which the plant 
produces. Lateral buds are usually avillary, as shown in 
Fig. 82, that is, they grow in the angle formed by the 
leaf with the stem (Latin azilla, armpit). But not infre- 
quently there are several buds grouped in some way about 
Fig. 82.— Alternate Leaves of Cultivated Cherry, with Buds in © 
their Axils, in October. 
a single leaf-axil, either one above the other, as in the 
butternut (Fig. 84), or grouped side by side, as in the red 
maple, the cherry, and the box-elder (Fig. 83). 
In these cases all the buds except the axillary one are 
called accessory or supernumerary buds. 
_ 135. Leaf-Buds and) Flower-Buds; the Bud an Undevel- 
‘oped Branch.— Such buds as the student has so far 
