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BUDS AND STIPULES 



eighth, but much shorter and smaller. The stipules 

 are large, particularly on the leafy shoots ; but they 

 develop after the leaves are expanded, or during that 

 process. Some forms are exstipulate. 



The winter-buds of the White Willow (Salix alba) 

 are all axillary ; the terminal one, as well as the tip of 

 every shoot, dies. The buds are oblong, obtuse or sub- 

 acute, compressed antero-posteriorly, but tumid on the 



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179 



180 



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SALIX ALBA. 



FIG. 178. Anterior aspect of winter-bud covered with one scale. 

 FIG. 179. Posterior aspect of the same, showing the median thickened suture, s. 

 FIG. 180. Scales of winter-buds bursting along the suture on the posterior aspect, 



showing the mass of leaves, I, bent at the apex. 

 FIG. 181. First true leaf, immediately inside the winter-scale. 

 FIG. 182. Second leaf. FIG. 183. Fifth leaf. FIG. 184. Eighth leaf. 



FIG. 185. Tenth leaf. 



anterior face (fig. 178), thickened at the edges, and have 

 a thickened suture (fig. 179) along the middle of the 

 posterior aspect. The cap-like scale seems to consist 

 of two leaves united ; its thickened edges and the 

 strong, slightly branched nerve, easily seen on the 

 inner face of these thickened edges, tend to support 

 this view ; but no suture is discernible on the ante- 

 rior face. When growth recommences in spring, 

 the scale bursts along the suture on the posterior 

 face (fig. 180). 



