248 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [ocroser 
chambers mentioned above, so that transpiration is entirely pre- 
vented, they also develop. In these moist chambers, however, with 
the tips still intact, no development of the buds occurs. If the 
shoot is removed and placed in darkness for a few days, until the 
food is mostly exhausted by the rapid growth, and then the apex 
cut off, the lateral buds still develop. The —————_{ 
removal of the leaves has no influence on the 
buds, for from many shoots not only were all the 
larger leaves carefully cut away, but even those 
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Fic. 2.—Lycium halimijolium. Two similar shoots were selected and from A 
the apex was removed; the photographs show them both three weeks later. 
still folded in the buds, and in no case did the growing points 
develop. But when in addition the tip of the shoot was removed, they 
at once started. While these experiments were mostly on Salix, 
other plants, such as Cornus, Lycium, Ficus, Oleander, etc., gaV° 
similar results. Here, as in the basal primordia of Phaseolus, no 
matter how vigorous. and well-nourished the plant may be, oF aie 
abundant its water supply, with the growing apex of the shoot 
intact, the young axillary buds remained dormant. When this tp § 
removed, the bud starts to develop even with a loss of water or in 
a starved condition. This capacity is greatest in the young shook 
and gradually declines with age as the seasonal growth ceases. “™ 
