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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A bud producing a stem with leaves only, as distinguished from a flower-bud, technically called a gemma. They are normal when produced either at the end of the shoot or in the axils; otherwise they are adventitious. When not externally apparent they are called latent buds.
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“It is, however, natural to consider a polypus, furnished with a mouth, intestines, and other organs, as a distinct individual, whereas the individuality of a leaf-bud is not easily realised; so that the union of separate individuals in a common body is more striking in”
“During this pause three small boys padded up the flagstoned passage from the depths of the house behind me, concentratedly threaded a way around me and out through the pair beyond and silently climbed like cats up into the fuzzy bursting leaf-bud embrace of an ancient spreading oak nearby on the lawn.”
“It is, in fact, more like a leaf-bud than a flower.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
“= -- As already stated, this is of more common occurrence than the formation of a leaf-bud in a similar situation.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
“Where there is evidently a passage from leaf-bud to flower-bud, or _vice versâ_, the case would be one of metamorphy.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
“In this case the corolla and calyx were distant from each other; there was no trace of stamens, but the axis was continued from the centre of the corolla, and ended in a leaf-bud.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
“The word Displacement is here used to signify the unusual position of an organ; while Heterotaxy may serve to include those cases where a new growth makes its appearance in an unwonted situation, as, for instance, a leaf-bud on a root, &c.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
“The prolonged axis is more frequently terminated by a flower-bud than by a leaf-bud, though it must be remarked, that the lengthened and protruded stem frequently bears leaves upon its sides, even if it terminate in a flower, and thus the new growth partakes of a mixed leafy and floral nature.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
“Now, in prolified flowers the functions and, to a considerable extent, the appearance of a leaf-bud or of a branch are assumed, and with them the tendency to grow in length is developed.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
“Here, too, may be mentioned those cases wherein a leaf-bud is found upon the surface of the so-called inferior ovary; generally a leaf only is found, but a leaf-bud may also originate in this situation, and in either case the inference is that the ovary is, in part at least, made of the dilated and hollowed axis.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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