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name of scales. This name is also given in the same 

 plants both to the abortive bracts situated between the 

 flowers, and more usually called Yaleje, and to the 

 pieces of the calyx, reduced to the state of pappus, 

 when their form differs from that of hairs, and their 

 texture gives them a rude resemblance to scales ; it is 

 also in this sense that this name has been given to the 

 bracts of cones, to the glumes of several Graminese and 

 Cyperaceae, &c. &c. Lastly, the scales of buds come 

 evidently under the same class, and are only the rudi- 

 ments or abortions of leaves, petioles and stipules ; but 

 their history is so important that it deserves particular 

 mention, and therefore I dedicate the next chapter 

 to it. 



CHAPTER VI. 



OF BUDS. 



The term Bud is taken, in the French language, in 

 two very different senses. 1 st, the young productions or 

 branches of perennial plants are commonly meant by it. 

 Botanists call these Young Shoots or Scions (turiones). 

 When these shoots are found covered or protected in 

 their infancy by particular scales, the plant is said to 

 have scaly buds ; in the contrary case, they are said to 

 be naked. 2d, Botanists, on the contrary, designate by 

 the name of Bud {Gemma), not the young shoot, but 

 the collection of scales or coats which surround and 



