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leaves is often already indicated in the scaly bud of spring 
flowering plants during the previous year. It is only one o 
the extreme results of that tendency which certain plants 
have of flowering as early as possible, and hence of becoming — 
spring and occasionally fall blossoming plants. 
_ Late fall flowering plants may be divided into two classes. — 
First, those which have developed from summer flowering — 
plants by the increase in the number of internodes, with their. 4 
appendages, or the gradual retardation of growth. Second, | 
those which have developed from spring blossoming plants 
by the premature development of buds destined to flower first ~ 
during the ensuing spring. The first class never had any need ~ 
of protection to the flower buds against wintry weather, and — 
hence should form no scaly buds for the flowers; moreover, 
since their flowering buds never lay dormant ‘during the win- 
ter season, they should show no traces of a period of rest, — 
between the first growth of the flowering buds and their final ~ 
development. The second class should preserve traces of a 
is omitted for the present. 
flowering plants, and that they have obtained the power of 
flowering so early by decreasing the number of their inter- 
nodes and by starting the development of their flower buds — 
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