SYSTEMS OF BRANCHING 



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terminal bud of this 

 season's growth, now 

 dead 



bud for the 



commg seasor 

 in axil of a leaf -scar. 



scars of bud of present season, 

 terminal bud of last 

 season dead. 



terminal bud of last 

 season butane dead 



scars of bud of last seasc 



FIG. 17 

 TWIG OF AN ORDINARY TREE OR SHRUB 



Showing leaf and bud scars, and annual sympodial growth. 



The whole then appears exactly like one straight 

 axis, but the presence of a leaf-scar on one side with- 

 out its axillary bud, and of a dead bud on the other 

 side without any subtending leaf, show what it is 

 This method of growth is called sympodial, and the 

 resulting axis a sympodium. It is very common in 



