from gemma, “a bud,” a term used by Linnaeus, expressive of the form of the buds, their origin, and their contents. It includes both those properly called buds, and those which are seated at the roots, styled bulbs.

As to the origin of buds, they are formed either of the footstalks of the leaves, of stipules, or of scales of the bark. Their contents have been already discovered, in the preceding article, to be either flowers, leaves, or both.