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The terminal buds on the branches were very small in July; 
they are protected by the basal part of the uppermost foliage- 
leaves. The lateral buds are also protected by the erect basal 
part of the petioles (Fig. 25 A, 5). The buds bear scale-leaves, 
greenish or reddish in colour which merge by easy stages into 
foliage-leaves (Fig. 25 E). In spring the terminal buds are the 
first to develop, and then the axillary buds in succession from 
above downwards, but this succession is not always strictly 
observed. The lowermost buds onjthe year’s shoots may remain 
dormant for several years, and may then develop. The inflores- 
cence is terminal. When it has completed its growth a strong 
lateral shoot is given off immediately below it (Fig. 25 4), often 
forming a sympodium with the parent shoot. 
The inflorescence is a many-flowered raceme and is formed 
during the year previous to that in which it opens; it passes 
the winter naked with its flower-buds well-developed (the spe- 
cimen shown in Fig. 25 B is from Denmark in the month of 
July). It is drooping (Fig. 25 B,C), and has no foliage-leaves, 
only subtending scale-leaves, and two bracts at the base of each 
flower-stalk. 
The corolla, which turns its throat downwards, is more 
brightly coloured and more conspicuous than in A. alpina: 
whitish with a tinge of red, the limb of a deeper red. It varies 
somewhat in size (from 4 to 6°5 mm. in length; the limb from 
3 to 3:5 mm. in breadth; throat from 1°25 to 1°75 mm. in width). 
The throat is wider than in A. alpina. The interior of the 
corolla is covered with small, stiff hairs to which the pollen- 
tetrads (Fig. 26 G) adhere for a long time (Fig. 26 L). The hairs 
do not extend so far towards the margin as in A. alpina. 
The stamens are half as long as the pistil (Fig. 26). The 
two appendages which proceed from the anthers extend first in 
a straight line and then curve upwards; they are rough with 
small prickly hairs (Fig. 26 7, N). Linpman found specimens in 
