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The bud which is normally axillary to the removed leaf failed 
to develop. 
fig. 36 is a somewhat similar case, but more complicated. 
Here, too, there is an adnation of the petiole of the leaf to the 
peduncle, and two of the three leaflets are partly colored like 
sepals. From the groove at the side of the coalesced petiole 
and peduncle arises an axillary branch. This branch bears, at 
the next node above, a leaf which in every respect resembles a 
sepal, and which failed to produce a bud in its axil. 
All the cases here described and figured are in the herbarium 
of the writer, except those of Lathyrus which were dissected, 
and the parts sketched and described from the fresh material. 
YELLOw Sprincs, O. 
