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or sguamose, tuntcated [in the hyacinth or oaioa ‘abrous § 
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THE BUD. i) 
Branches of the stem spring, like leaves and flowers, from 
buds. According to the organs which result from their de- 
velopment, they are distinguished into stem-buds (Alumules), 
leaf-buds, and flower-buds. 
Fic. 122.—Scaly (squamose) bulb of — Fic. 123.—a@ Terminal bud; 4 axillary 
the onion ; 6 plate or disc ; a bulbils. bud, the leaf in the axil of which it 
was produced having been removed. 
As respects the position of the bud, it 1s Zerminal (Fig. 
123 @) when it is situated at the end of a branch, axillary 
(Fig. 123 4) when it grows in the axil of a leaf, ze in the 
angle which its upper surface makes with the stem, or 
adventitious when it springs from any other part of a 
stem except these two. The latter kind occur but. 
rarely ; the tendrils of the grape-vine (Fig. 196, p. 108) 
proceed from buds of this description. In the same 
manner the shoots which spring from the cteeping foots 
of certain plants, the plum, wild cherry, &c., originate 
