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patting anomalies out of sight, may be inclined to think that the 

 occurrence of buds where they are avowedly unconnected with 

 nodes, and are axillary to nothing, tells very much against the as- 

 sumption that every bud implies a node and a corresponding foliar 

 organ. And they may also see that the development of these ad- 

 ventitious buds at places where there is excess of nutritive mate- 

 rials, favours the view above set forth. For if a bud thus arises a} 

 a place where it is not morphologically accounted for, simply because 

 there happens to be at that place an abundance of unorganized pro- 

 lojjlasm ; then, clearly, it is likely that if the mass of protaplasm 

 from which a leaf would usually arise, is greatly increased in masa 

 bv excess of nutrition, it may develop into an axis instead of a leaf 



