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HOW THE LEAVES EXPAND FROM THE BUDS. 



out and form a circle ot tinv cups round the green stipules which 

 torm the inner covering ot the bud. As the buds develop both thev 

 and the shoot and voung leaves which thev produce turn downwards. 

 The young shoot is reddish-green and hairv, and bears at its apex a 

 cluster of voung leaves pointing downwards and Iving close against it. 

 The leaves have their blades folded together at the central rib, and 

 are almost hidden bv the stipules whose growth has kept pace with 

 their own. As the leaves develop further thev tiatten out, and lie 

 like a pair ot wings on either side of the lengthening shoot, which 

 is now tipped bv a neu' coronal of leaves arranged in similar fashion 

 to the hrst. The leaves ha\'e no sooner expanded e\'en partiallv than 



