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developed, were developed on one side of tlie stem. The dia- 

 gram further indicates how the branch at first produced nothing 

 hut flowering secondary axes, and that it then became sterile on 

 one side, carrying foliage leaves on that side and, in the axils 

 of the foliage leaves, the usual arrested buds. 



Fig. 2 



At first every fourth organ was a foliage-leaf, but later every 

 other. Figure 3 opposite is inserted to indicate this : it repre- 

 sents the branch cut open along one side and unrolled so that 

 its^whole circumference is towards the reader. 



At the end of the branch, but obliquely, were to be found 

 the 'small scales of the terminal bud. This terminal bud was 

 twisted towards the foliasre side of the branch. 



