150 BUDS AND STIPULES 



its inner surface, besmeariug the bud, as in the 

 Horse Chestnut, but only in the very early stages. 

 As the bud swells the outer cap becomes ruptured, 

 and appears then like a deeply concave scale, which 

 is glabrous or nearly so. This cap is followed by 

 others, which attain a somewhat larger size before the 

 expanding bud causes them to split ; they are densely 

 covered with brown hairs externally and glabrous 

 internally. 



Fig. 263 represents the terminal bud of the leading 

 shoots, and also of the lateral spurs or short twigs, 

 covered with a conical, fluted, glabrous, reddish-brown 

 cap, consisting of stipules which are connate to the 

 very apex ; the latter is slightly lateral, and all the 

 ribs or veins terminate there. 



Inside the first stipular cap comes a second (fig. 264), 

 thinly hairy, dotted with dark glands and completely 

 covered with a viscid, resinous secretion ; the veins 

 terminate at the apex. 



The third cap (fig. 265) is also entire, but densely 

 covered with glossy rich brown hairs ; the latter have 

 three to six very short, spreading branches at the very 

 base, and consist of two to six joints, resembling a 

 bamboo or fishing-rod, the joints becoming more slender 

 towards the apex. 



The fourth cap (fig. 266) is shorter, widely open at 

 the apex, and provided with an ovate leaf at its base 

 externally ; both cap and leaf are covered with brown 

 hairs. 



