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47. Monocotjledonous plants seldom produce more than oro 
bud annually. On the summit of the palm appears the bud, 
containing the leaves and flowers ; from the center of this bud, 
a foot-stalk springs up bearing the flower, while the leaves spread 
out at its base. The following year the old leaves decay, form 
ing, by their indurated remains, a ring around the stipe of the 
palm ; and a new bud is formed upon its summit as before. 
The bud of the palm, from its form and size, is often called the 
ccMage. Leaf-buds are either aerial or subter- 
ranean. In the asparagus, which has a peren- 
nial stem below ground (a rJiizoina)^ subterror 
nean huds are annually produced, which ap- 
pear above ground as buds covered with 
scales ; this bud is a turion. These branches 
are herbaceous, and perish annually, while 
the true stem remains below ground, ready to 
send up new shoots. The lily and onion are 
subterranean buds. 
a. Botanists enumerate four kinds of buds, the bulb, turion, 
bulblet, bidbille, and the proper bud. 
48. The proper hud consists of the flower- 
hud., the leafiud^ and 
the mixed-hud. 
a. The flower-hud i^oi \ 
a short, round form, and ^ 
contains the rudiments 
of one or several flowers, 
without leaves, folded 
over each and 
surrounded with 
scales. The leqf- 
hud contains the 
rudiments of sev- 
eral leaves with- 
out flowers / it 
is usually longer 
and more pointed 
than the flower- 
bud. The mixed- 
hud contains hoth 
learns and flowers. 
Fig. 34 shows, at a, 
the flower-bud of the 
apple with its scaly covering ; 6, the spot occupied by the buds of the preceding 
year. The flower-bud is usually found at the extremities of small short branches ; 
Fig. 35. 
47. Bnd of the palrr a. What four kinds of buds 1—48. Proper bad, how many kinds 1— Fiir. 
«owei--bud. 
