IX] 



OPENING BUDS 



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In the Beech and Oak the terminal bud is often 

 aborted, but not always. 



It is especially during the period of opening of the 

 buds in May, or thereabouts, that we are able to readily 

 verify the facts, already referred to, as to the morphological 

 nature of the bud-scales, and the arrangement and folding 

 of the young leaves in their interior, as is particularly 

 clear in such cases as those illustrated in the series shown 

 in Figs. 48 and 49. 



Fig. 48. a and b opening buds of Wild Cherry, Prunus Avium. The 

 bud-scales are the bases of stipulate leaves, and the leaves conduplicate, 

 all spirally arranged, c Walnut buds just bursting (K). 



As long as the shoot developed from the bud is still 

 growing, and for the remainder of the current season, the 

 term shoot in the narrow sense may be conveniently 



