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BUD- SCALES 



[OH. 



The bud-scales are the bases of reduced leaves in the 

 Bird Cherry, as shown in Fig. 32, and also in 



Horse-chestnut 

 Portugal Laurel 

 Cherry 

 Elder 

 Guelder Rose 



Maple 



Sycamore 



Ash 



Bird Cherry 



Beam Tree 



Plum 

 Myrica 

 Walnut 

 Laburnum 

 Cherry Laurel. 



Fig. 34. 



Fig. 34. A bud of the Alder from which the outer scales have been 

 dissected off, showing a folded and plaited leaf L with its stipule st. 

 sc. scars of the dissected off bud- scales (stipular) just above the leaf-scar. 

 The bud is shortly stalked. 



Fig. 35. Bud of Plane just opening. The leaves are bursting through 

 the closed envelopes formed by the stipules, leaving the latter as cup-like 

 investments at their base. Cf. Figs. 19 and 20 (H). 



In the Fig, Alder and Plane (cf. Figs. 33 to 35), as 

 also in the following, the bud-scales are stipules : 



Chestnut Elm Oaks 



Lime Hornbeam Hazel 



Rose Blackberry Buckthorn 



Pear Birch Apple 



