BUDS 



29 



RESTING BUDS 



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Buds of the 

 Hickory. 



29. The most conspiouou.s buds are the scaly resting 

 buds of most trees and slirul)s of temperate or cold 

 climates. When these are formed at the 

 end of a stem or liraneh, tliey arc referred 

 tu as terminal buds. In the angle, or axil, 



of nearly all the leaves 



others are found, termed 



axillary or lateral buds 



(Fig. 17). 



30. Accessory or su- 

 pernumerary buds. — 

 'J'liere are cases where 

 two, three, or more 

 buds spring from tlie 

 axil of a leaf, instead 

 of the single one which 

 is ordinarily found tliere. Sometimes 

 they are placed one over tlie other, as 

 in the Aristolochia, or Pipevine ; and 

 in Pterocai'ya (Pig- 18), where the 

 upper bud is a good way out of the 

 axil. In other cases three buds stand 

 side by side in the axil, as in the Red 

 jMaple. 



31. Formation of winter buds 



Such plants as prepare for winter hy 

 the production of winter buds form 

 them early in the foregijing summer. 

 In many woody plants tlie axillary 

 buds do not show themselves until 

 sprino- ; Ijut if searched for, they may 



18. The accessory buds '- ^ i- n • 



of Pterocarya be detected, though of small size, 

 Rhoifoiia, some- hidden under the bark. Sometimes, 



what above the 



axil, and already though early formed, they may be 

 partia-iiy devei- concealed all summer loii"- under the 



oped in the nrst °. 



summer. base of the leaf stalk, which is then 



