130 BUDS AND STIPULES 



spectively, are greatly in advance of those that follow. 

 The sixth pair of stipules and the younger members of 

 the bud they enclose will show a reason for the second 

 leaf being partly involute, so as to occupy the space. 



According to Henry (18, 309), the outer scales are 

 the stipules of the last leaves of the previous year. The 

 description given above, however, is, I believe, the 

 correct one. 



THE BEECH (Fagus sylvatica) 



The bud of the Beech (figs. 199-210) is more 

 complicated. It is elongated, spindle-shaped, half to 

 three-quarters of an inch in length; on the outside 

 are four closely imbricating rows of stipules, arranged 

 apparently in opposite decussate pairs. I say appa- 

 rently, because, as the leaves are alternate, it is pos- 

 sible that each pair of these stipules are really alternate, 

 though so compressed as to appear to be opposite. 



The first pair (fig. 200) are small, triangular, and 

 pointed. The five following are also triangular, each 

 rather larger than the preceding and more convolute, 

 till they almost enclose the upper part of the bud. 

 The lower ones are brown and coriaceous ; the upper 

 membranous, and furnished with numerous straight, 

 longitudinal, parallel, slender veins running from the 

 base to the apex. The covered parts are white, the 

 exposed brown. The upper ones are fringed with long, 



