132 BUDS AND STIPULES 



recurved, silvery or satiny hairs. They are sometimes 

 a brilliant pink or rose colour after expansion, but less 

 often than those of the Hornbeam. The fifth and sixth 

 pairs (fig. 201) are ciliate with short hairs, and rolled 

 round a considerable part of the bud. 



The seventh pair are half as long as the bud, but 

 otherwise like the sixth ; the eighth pair, two-thirds as 

 long as the bud ; the ninth, nearly as long as the bud, 

 with silky hairs directed downwards, and the outer one 

 of the two distinctly overlaps the inner. The tenth 

 pair are as long as the bud, and each is convolute, so as 

 to cover nine-tenths of the bud, or even more. The 

 eleventh pair (fig. 202) are similar, and almost meet at 

 their edges. These eleven pairs of stipules show no 

 traces of a leaf. 



Fig. 204 represents a bud after the removal of the 

 first eleven pairs of stipules. 



About the twelfth pair there is a material change ; 

 they (fig. 205) are smaller, and between them is a leaf- 

 blade ; this is about one-third as long as its stipules, 

 concave on the inner face, and plicate along the course 

 of the ascending lateral nerves. The thirteenth pair of 

 stipules (fig. 206) are rather narrower, especially at the 

 base. The leaf is about half as long as the stipules. The 

 fourteenth pair (fig. 207) are much smaller, thinner, 

 narrower, and unequal, the inner one being the 

 smaller. The leaf is three-fourths as long as its stip- 

 ules. The leaf (fig. 208) belonging to the fifteenth 



