BUDS. 



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47. Monocotyledonoiis plants seldom produce more than one 

 bud annually. On the summit of the palm appears ,the bud, 

 containing the leaves and flowers ; from the center of this bud, 

 a foot-stalk springs up bearing the flower, while the leaves spread 

 out at its* base. The • following year the old leaves decay, form 

 ing, by their indurated remains, a ring around the stipe of the 

 palm ; and a new bud is formed upon its summit as before. 

 The bud of the palm, from its form and size, is often called the 

 cabhage. Leaf-buds are either aerial or subter- 

 ranean. In the aspai'agus, w^hich has a peren- 

 nial stem below ground (a rliizomd).^ suhterrctr 

 nean buds are annually produced, which ap- 

 pear above ground as buds covered with 

 scales ; this bud is a turion. These branches 

 are herbaceous, and perish annually, while 

 the true stem remains below ground, ready to 

 send up new shoots. The lily and onion are 

 subterranean buds. 



a. Botanists enumerate four kinds of buds, the hulh, turion, 

 bulblet, bulbille, and the proper bud. 



48. The proper bud consists of the flower- 

 bud.^ the leaf-bicd.^ and 

 the mixed-bud. 



a. The flower-bud is of 

 a short, round form, and 

 contains the rudiments 

 of one or several flowers, 

 without leaves, folded 

 over each and 

 surrounded with 

 scales. The leqf- 

 hud contains the 

 rudiments of sev- 

 eral leaves loitJi- 

 out flxxwers ; it 

 is usually longer 

 and more pointed 

 than the flower- 

 bud. The mixed- 

 bud contains both 

 leaves and flowers. 



Yxif. 34 shows, at a, 

 the flower-bud of the 

 apple with its scaly covering ; b, the spot occupied by the buds of the preceding 

 year. The flower-bud is usually foimd at the extremities of small short branches ; 



Fig. 35. 



47. Bud of the palm— a. What four kinds of buds ?— 48. Proper bud, how many kinds ?— Fig. 34. 

 flower-bud. 



