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BUDS 



In most cold or temperate climes it would be during the winter, 

 when little water can be drawn from the soil (Sec. 39). 



97. Position of buds. The distinction between lateral and 

 terminal buds has already been alluded to (Sec. 57). 



The plumule is the first terminal bud 

 which the plant produces. Lateral buds 

 are usually axillary, as shown in Fig. 79, 

 that is they grow in the angle formed 

 by the leaf with the stem (Latin, axilla, 

 armpit) ; but not infrequently there are 

 several buds grouped in some way about 

 a single leaf axil, either one above the 

 other, as in the butternut (Fig. 80), or 



FIG. 80. Accessory 

 buds of butternut 



I, leaf scar ; ax, axil- 

 lary bud ; a, a', ac- 

 cessory buds; t, 

 terminal bud. Re- 

 duced. 



FIG. 81. Accessory buds of box elder 

 (Negundo) 



A, front view of group; B, two groups 

 seen in profile. Magnified 



grouped side by side, as in the red maple, the cherry, and the 

 box elder (Fig. 81). 



In these cases all the buds, except the axillary one, are 

 called accessory or supernumerary buds. Those which appear in 



