1146 General Notes. 
essentially the same condition is shown at this 
both figures the epidermis and the sub-epid 
sues are shown to be pushed out by the deve 
As the buds increase in size the epidermal a 
is pushed out more and more until at last 
what regularly along each side, and the ic pe 
and crowded back by the mass of buds. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PoU 
Fic. 1.—Portion of a stem of Cuscuta glomerat 
from whose axil there grows an abortive flowering t 
nary branch, ¢. 
ith a dodder € 
Fic. 2—A fra of a sunflower stem, w1 
larged at mento separately at 4) by the oases 
natural size). oni 
tli ketch of asm 
ey hm ae the fib fibro-vascular bundle of ror 5 
cortical tissues which have been pushed out ! 
nifed). 
of t 
If of a cross-section 
Fi 4—Outine seth of hal of co ee he 
, 
ushed out by the adventitions bud, ¢; 
: flo wer stem; /, hairs of sunflower $ stem. 
t th 
while I have not been able to make ou 2 
there can be little doubt, from their posit tion 
