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The Vegetable Individual in its relation to Species. 189 
den ;* they are most definite in Réper’s works.¢ Linnzus ex- 
pressed the same thought in the words “ gemme totidem herbe.”’ 
And I am thus led to make a particular remark, which is intended 
at the same time to modify in some degree what I said before in 
relation to the annually renewed generations of trees. It is in- 
deed true that branches of trees and perennial herbs, especially in 
temperate climates, first appear as buds; and in a more extended 
Sense we call in general every young branch a bud, even if its 
parts are not, as they usually are, compactly arranged and folded 
together ; still, all buds are not the rudiments of branches. Lat- 
eral buds are the only ones from which branches originate, and 
therefore they alone are to be regarded as new lines of develop- 
ment,—as individuals. Terminal buds, on the contrary, are noth- 
b if Grundz,, ii, p. 4, “New identical individuals develop upon the maternal stem 
.) Continuing the growth,” etc. Here the expression “continuing the growth,” is 
+ Proper, for the shoot does not “continue” the growth at all, but is a new growth 
from a new rudi 
‘ et perpendicularis 
(caulis, ramus, ramulus, flos) individuum vegetabile vocatur.” This is the t defi- 
tion I kn but 
ment, 
t “ Omnis gemma solitaria aut ejusdem continuatio immediata 
” 
nite description I know of ; for in this passage not only the eS 80- ” 
is app 2 to 
a one state of a shoot or of its ,and therefore cannot be a suitable expression 
t is to be regarded as the vegetable individual. : : 
ing. by be J pl 46,) aptly expresses these relations by calling the 
bud the continuation of the “series of formations,” lateral buds begin- 
hings of a new “series of generations.” In contradiction with these terms, however 
’ the bu organ” as as it is connected with the na pga og: 
4 term inapplicable to the bud as it is to the developed branch, of which it is the 
Adolescent state, 
