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DISGUISES IN BUD.ARRANGEMENT. 
THE law regarding the general arrangement of buds is very simple, 
but it is not always easy to make all the phenomena of leaf, branch, 
and flower arrangement agree with the law. This is especially true in 
_ the various forms of inflorescence, because in the floral system there is 
a decidedly greater tendency of potential buds to develop than in the 
case of the vegetative system ; and as flowers can perform their impor- 
tant duty in a somewhat crowded condition as well as when scattered, 
while leaves must be scattered, the internode is not an important factor 
in inflorescence as it is in the leaf bearing stem. 
One of the simplest disguises of the origin of an inflorescence is 
seen in various Vitacez, Phytolacca, Enslenia, Gonolobus, etc., where 
each inflorescence terminates the axis, and the succeeding internode is 
produced by the highest axillary bud. This new internode differs lit- 
tle in size from the preceding, while the stem bearing the inflorescence 
remains small and is thus thrust aside by the development of the axil- 
lary bud. This results in placing the inflorescence opposite a leaf, 
where it really, but not apparently, terminates the axis. To strengthen 
this disguise, a small bud is frequently developed in the axil of the 
leaf opposite the inflorescence, making it appear thatthe terminal bud 
has continued the vegetative axis, in which case the inflorescence could 
_ have no normally placed bud from which to develop. The nature of 
this little bud will be considered later. 
A still more complete disguise is found in many of the Solanacee, 
where the leaf, which in the above cases stands directly opposite the 
inflorescence, is carried up by adnation the whole length of an inter- 
node from its normal position, leaving the inflorescence apparently 
branching from an internode instead of a node (fg. 7). This also 
results in an unusual arrangement at the node above, where there are 
two leaves at one node but not opposite. By tearing a portion of the 
bark bearing the misplaced leaf down to the level of the inflorescence, 
oth the node bearing the inflorescence and the one above will appear 
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