180 . The Botanical Gazette. [June, 
The identification of trees in winter. 
AUG. F. FOERSTE. 
(WITH PLATES XII AND xIII.) 
Any method of identifying ligneous plants other than the 
ordinary one by means of their flowers and leaves, must 
and the subtended, more or less scaly, winter buds which 
enclose a portion or all of the growth of the coming season in 
rudimentary form. 
“ 
Sa matter of fact the length of these twigs varies con- 
of the petiole-scars and the scaly buds vary quite commonly 
on approaching the tips or the base of even the same twig. 
by the 
ture of 
a 
order i idi e same time 
of the importance, thus providing at th » classified 
