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young shoots—which have by that time ceased to 
elongate to any considerable extent further—they may 
be seen as small, green, hairy bodies. During the re- 
mainder of the summer the chief changes going on in 
Fig. 19.—A. End of a branch of oak showing the charac- 
teristic winter buds. B. A group of buds (slightly mag- 
nified) ; a, bud-scales; d, leaf-scars. c. The same, in 
longitudinal section: a, bud-scales (stipules); 0, young 
leaves; c, vascular bundles; d, leaf-scars. (Prantl and 
Hartig.) 
these buds is a slow swelling, due to the gradual storing 
up of nutritive materials in the pith and growing-point 
and to the slow division of the cells. 
A vertical section through the bud at the end of the 
autumn shows the following structures (fig. 19,c). A 
