ON THE l'KOTECTION OF BUDS 



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connate at the base, with an interpetiolar, free, ovate, 

 acute piece, which is sometimes entire, sometimes divided 

 at the apex into two or three setaceous teeth, as if 

 these free portions consisted of one stipule from each 



Fig. 133. End of Shoot of Gardenia Florida. Nat. size. 



//, ZJ X a pair of leaves with their connate stipules, St', showing the fissured side 

 only: L'\L", the youngest unexpanded pair of leaves, with their stipules (St") 

 completely investing the terminal bud. 



leaf united. These stipules are very advanced in bud, 

 and evidently attain full size long before the expansion 

 of the leaves, many pairs of which they completely 

 cover and protect. They are persistent, covering the 

 bases of the leaves when full grown. They thus pro- 



