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YOUNG PLANTS 



by the earlier botanists the Plumule, and the somewhat 

 fanciful name has been preserved. 



Here, then, we have sketched out as it were the 

 architecture of the young shoot-system. This grows out 

 by the elongation of its internodes, and the expansion of 

 its leaves, and soon reaches a stage comparable to that 

 shown in Fig. 2 A. At the end of its growth for the season, 



b 



^ C 



B. 



Fig. 2. A. Shoot of seedling such as that in Fig. 1, at end of first 

 year, a last leaves expanded ; B terminal bud ; b buds in axils of coty- 

 ledons; c scars of fallen cotyledons. B. Shoot of seedling such as that 

 in A, after it has shed its leaves, and passed into the stage of winter rest, 

 c scars of the fallen cotyledons, with their axillary buds b ; 13 lateral 

 buds in the axils of successive leaves which have fallen and left scars. 

 B terminal bud. 



the leaves fall, and the shoot becomes a twig, as in Fig. 

 2 B, and rests through the winter. In the ensuing spring 

 growth is renewed, and in process of time the terminal 



