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CHAPTER XIV. 



OF BUDS. 



(JTEMMA, a Bud, contains the rudiments of a plant, 

 or of part of a plant, for a while in a latent state, till 

 the time of the year and other circumstances favour 

 tjheir evolution. In the bud therefore the vital prin- 

 ciple is dormant, and its excitability is accumulated. 

 The closest analogy exists between buds and bulbs ; 

 and indeed the Dentaria bulbifera, Engl. Bot. t. 309, 

 Lilium bulbiferum, Jacq. FL Austr. t. 226, and Ge- 

 rarde emac. 193, with other similar plants, as men- 

 tioned /;. 86, almost prove their identity. 



Buds of trees or shrubs, destined for cold countries, 

 are formed in the course of the summer in the bosoms 

 of their leaves, and are generally solitary ; but in the 

 Blue-berried Honeysuckle, Lonicera c&ruka, Jacg. 

 Ft. Austr. append, t. 17, they grow one under another 

 for three successive seasons, f. 24. The buds of the 

 Plane-tree, Plat anus, Du Hamel Arb. v. 2 . 171, are 

 concealed in the footstalk, which must be removed 

 before they can be seen, and which they force off by 

 their increase; so that no plant can have more truly and 

 necessarily deciduous leaves than the Plane. Shrubs 

 in general have no buds, neither have the trees of hot 

 climates. Linnaeus once thought the presence of buds 



