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Updated: May 15, 2025
She lay without any other covering than a light, web-like veil, just as if she had thrown herself down there after having taken part the whole night in some elfin dance; but the long blades of grass and the trembling flower-clusters stood high over the sleeper, so that Reor could scarcely catch a glimpse of the soft lines of her body. Nor did he go nearer in order to see better.
Phyllotaxy is not yet to be taken up, but the pupils should be shown the different angles of the branching of the twigs, and told to compare them with Beech and Elm. In which buds are the flower-clusters? Are there flowers and leaves in the same buds? What are the scales of the bud? How are the leaves folded in the bud? How do the axillary and terminal buds differ?
When Timar had worked his way through the brake, which formed a labyrinth of flesh-colored flower-clusters, he saw before him what he sought an island. No doubt this was a new alluvial formation, of which no trace was to be found on the latest maps. In the bed of the right arm of the Danube lay long ago a great bowlder, at whose base the sluggish current had deposited a sand-bank.
The outer pair sometimes have buds in their axils. Remove the scales one by one with a knife, or better, with a stout needle. The scales gradually become thinner as we proceed, and pass into leaves, so that we cannot tell where the scales end and leaves begin. After about six pairs are removed, we come, in the larger buds, to leaves with axillary flower-clusters.
The leaves show me their silky completeness, rustling above the stream in softest tree talk; the curious staminate flower-clusters hang like bunches of inverted commas; the neat little burs, with their inoffensive prickles, mature and discharge the angular nuts but I am not again, I fear, to be present at the hour of the leaf-birth of the beech's year.
In some flowers the styles do not develop, and we have one reason why many flowers are sterile. The flower-clusters differ much among themselves, in size of parts, number of flowers, color; on some trees the flowers appear in advance of most of the leafage, but usually they are coincident with the leaves.
If the teacher finds his scholars wearying, however, he can leave as many of the details as he pleases to be treated in connection with other branches. How many scales are there in the buds you have examined? How are they arranged? How many leaves are there in the buds? How are they arranged? Where does the flower-cluster come in the bud? Do all the buds contain flower-clusters?
The calyx is bell-shaped, unequal, and lobed. The stamens and pistil can be seen. The flower-clusters do not seem to leave any mark which is distinguishable from the leaf-scar. American Elm. 1. Branch in winter state: a, leaf-scars; b, bud-scars; d, leaf-buds; e, flower-buds. 2. Branch, with staminate flower-buds expanding. 3. Same, more advanced. 4.
What is the use of the wool and the gum? Where do the buds come on the stem? Which are the strongest? How are the leaves arranged on the stem? Do the pairs stand directly over each other? What are the dots on the leaf-scars? How old is your branch? How old is each twig? Which years were the best for growth? Where were the former flower-clusters?
Subsequently, I found the leaflets also in the buds themselves. I found these leaflets developed on the tree only in the shoots containing flower-clusters, where they would be needed for the future growth of the branches. I suppose the reason must be that the flower-cluster does not use all the nourishment provided and that therefore the axillary buds are able to develop.
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