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minal buds on every branch die each year. The branches 

 of the Elm, for instance, always lose the terminal bud as 

 winter comes on in this country, and the apparent con- 

 tinuation in length of the branch next spring is due to 

 the growth of the internodes of the next lowest lateral 



Fig. 10. Blackthorn, Prunus spinosa. 1, flowering shoot; 2, fruiting 

 branch; 3, flower in vertical section, enlarged; 4, fruit in section 

 (Wo). 



bud close to the tip (Fig. 9): similarly with the Lime, 

 Birch, Chestnut, Hazel, Mulberry, where the remains of 

 the dead terminal bud can be detected as a minute scar by 

 the side (opposite the leaf or its scar) of the axillary one 

 which at first sight appears to be the terminal one. In 



