. Botany all the year round; a practical text-book for schools. Botany. VII. BUDS AND BRANCHES BRANCHING STEMS Material. — Twigs of hickory and buckeye, or other alternate and opposite leaved plants with well-developed terminal buds. A larger bough of each should also be provided, and where practicable, twigs of several different kinds for comparison. Lilac, horse-chestnut, maple, ash, viburnum, are good examples of opposite buds. 240. Modes of Branching. — Compare the arrangement of the boughs on a pine, cedar, magnolia, etc., with those of the elm, maple, apple, or any of our common deciduou
. Botany all the year round; a practical text-book for schools. Botany. VII. BUDS AND BRANCHES BRANCHING STEMS Material. — Twigs of hickory and buckeye, or other alternate and opposite leaved plants with well-developed terminal buds. A larger bough of each should also be provided, and where practicable, twigs of several different kinds for comparison. Lilac, horse-chestnut, maple, ash, viburnum, are good examples of opposite buds. 240. Modes of Branching. — Compare the arrangement of the boughs on a pine, cedar, magnolia, etc., with those of the elm, maple, apple, or any of our common deciduous trees. Draw a diagram of each showing the two modes of growth. The first represents the excurrent kind, from the Latin excurrere, to run out; the second, in which the trunk seems to divide at a certain point and flow away and lose itself in the branches, is called deliquescent, from the Latin deliqtie- scere, to melt or flow away. The great majority of stems, as a little observation will show, present a mixture of the two 321.— Diagram of ex- current 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 Andrews, Eliza Frances, b. 1840. New York, Cincinnati [etc. ] American book company
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