method. 



Organopieny of the Flower - 



The flower buds arise from axils of the 

 leaves of the current year, or from latent buds of 

 the two preceding years, and appear early in May. 

 They as well as the leaf buds and the young twigs 

 are covered by a dense coating of tufted hairs (Figs 

 2a-2o), These hairs develope from a single epiderm- 

 al cell, which protrudes from the surface and is cut 

 by anticlinal walls into from four to twenty cells, 

 each of which sends out a long process (Figs. la-Id) 

 making a many-armed star. They are often raised on 

 a slight multicellular papilla. 



Each bud produces a head of from two to four 



