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A study of actual cross-sections of leaf-buds will make the 

 truth of the previous statements more clearly evident. Hof- 



Pig. 130e. Cross-section of a lateral bnd of the Virginia Creeper (Ami>elop#ia quin- 

 quefolia)) showing arrangement of parts in a double bud. Magnified. After Hof- 



meister's figures,* several of which are here reproduced (Figs. 



130, , to 130, d), show 

 that in all cases the leaf 

 rudiments occupy in 

 the bud the positions in 

 which they meet with 

 the least resistance. 

 This is beautifully 

 shown in the leaf-bud 

 of the Hemlock Spruce 

 (Fig. 130, a). In the 

 leaf-bud of the chest- 

 nut (Fig. 130, J), the 

 large stipules form the 



F g. Iftod. Crofs-gection of the leaf-bud of a 



youni: plant of Indian corn (Zta mais\. /., the bud-SCales : but here, US 

 cotyledon, with its two fibro- vascular bundles, 1, 1'; . ' 



II, III.. IV., V., the successive leaves, their mid- m the preceding Case, 

 ribs marked by a dot. Magnified.-After Hofmeis- L*TI 



ter. growth appears to follow 



the "lines of least resistance," the young leaves occupying 

 the interspaces between the stipules. The double lateral bud 



* In " Allgein. Morphol." 



