. Beginners' botany. Botany. WINTER AND DORMANT BUDS 113 walnut, butternut, red maple, honey locust, and sometimes in the apricot and peach. If the bud is at the end of a shoot, however short the shoot, it is called a terminal bud. It continues the growth of the axis in a direct line. Very often three or more buds are clustered at the tip (Fig. 140); and in this case there may be more buds than leaf scars. Only one of .them, however, is strictly terminal. A bud in the axil of a leaf is an axillary or lateral bud. Note that there is normally at least one bud in the axil of every leaf on a tree
. Beginners' botany. Botany. WINTER AND DORMANT BUDS 113 walnut, butternut, red maple, honey locust, and sometimes in the apricot and peach. If the bud is at the end of a shoot, however short the shoot, it is called a terminal bud. It continues the growth of the axis in a direct line. Very often three or more buds are clustered at the tip (Fig. 140); and in this case there may be more buds than leaf scars. Only one of .them, however, is strictly terminal. A bud in the axil of a leaf is an axillary or lateral bud. Note that there is normally at least one bud in the axil of every leaf on a tree or shrub in late summer and fall. The axillary buds, if they grow, are the starting points of new shoots the following season. If a leaf is pulled off early in summer, what will become of the young bud in its axil ? Try this. Bulbs and cabbage heads may be likened to buds ; that is, they are condensed stems, with scales or modified leaves densely overlapping and forming a rounded body (Fig. 141). They differ from true buds, how- ever, in the fact that they are con- densations of whole main stems rather than embryo stems borne in the axils of leaves. But bulblets (as of tiger lily) may be scarcely dis- tinguishable from buds on the one hand and from bulbs Fig. 140. — Ter- minal Bud between two other Buds. — Fig. 141. —a Gigantic Bud. — Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York, The Macmillan company
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