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parts of the bud are often distorted 

 by the enlargement of the tissues 

 to contain the food. The fleshy 

 buds which readily separate from 

 the axils of the leaves of some 

 garden lilies (fig. 294), and those 

 which replace the flowers in some 

 cultivated onions, are well known. 

 (Compare also fig. 106.) 



365. (b) Hibernacula. — Some- 

 what similar but more highly de- 



Fig. 296. — A plant of stonecrop (Sedum dasyfihylluvi). Offsets are produced near the 

 base on short branches o, o ; at the tip of longer branches, o' ; and in place of the flow- 

 ers, o" . Natural size. — After Kerner. 



Fig. 297.— Formation of runners in the strawberry, a, the mother plant ; b, young plant 

 formed at tip of first runner; c, plantlet at tip of second 1 , a third has put out from c. 

 Slightly reduced.— After Seubert. 



