1108 The Eibernacula of Heros. [November, 
which the next year’s growth is developed. Thesé butds may be 
either terminal or axillary. If they be axillary the terminal bud 
will not grow up into a flowering stalk, but will continue its 
growth beneath the surface of the earth; only the axillary buds 
along the stem will form the flowering branches from year to 
year. The result will be that the entire subterranean stem, which 
remains after the decay of the aerial stems on approach of winter, 
will have been the product of the single evolving terminal bud. 
Such a stem is called a monopodium. 
Claytonia virginica L., has a Hikietria.catelén composed of the 
dilated bases of petioles, which in early spring give rise to linear- 
lanceolate blades. Enclosed by the bases of the petioles during 
winter are the diminutive racemes 
which in spring elongate, show 
two opposite leaves. toward their 
base, and stand in the axils of 
- the now fully developed single 
leaves. The flowering b 
are axillary and the growth Is 
monopodial. In early sprig 
several specimens were found in 
the frozen earth which had al 
ready begun growth. 
On a do these plants ie 
during the time they are 
in the frozen ground and sil 
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rsist in growing? 
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undeveloped leaf. ita a tissues of 
year before within sal 
the corm-like root. The rootlets are extremely few and 
and are generally arranged in dots on one great vertical 
about the so-called corm, When the nourishment has beet. a 
drawn for the maturing of the plant, these little roots ak T 
up the store of food for next year's growth, and gee Í 
takes them all the year to do this. By autumn another 9 bt 
formed, which depends for its food not on the little rootlets, b" 
on the store of food which they have accumulated. 
Many other plants which have access to similar a 
food, grow during seasons when the earth certainly cannot 
nourishment. Thalictrum anemonoides Michx., Ls0pyr™” © 
