OF THE STEM. 117 



from each division, it is called caulis di- 

 chotomus, a forked stem, as in CI dor a 

 perfoliate!, Engl Bot. t. 60, as well as 

 the common Mouse-ear Chickweeds, Ce- 

 rastium vulgatum, £. 789? and viscosum, 

 t. 790. 



Though generally leafy, a Stem may 

 be partially naked, or even entirely so in 

 plants destitute of leaves altogether, as 

 the Creeping Cereus, Cactus fiagelliformis y 

 Curt. Mag. t. 17? various exotic species 

 of Euphorbia or Spurge, and the whole 

 genus of Stapelia. In Qrobanche, it is 

 scaly, squamosus. 



With respect to mode of growth, the 



Stem is 

 Erectus 9 upright, as in Yellow Loosestrife, 



Lysimachia vulgaris. Engl. Bot. t. 761. 



Procumbens, procumbent, Wood Loosestrife, 

 L. nemorum, t. 527. 



Repens, creeping, Creeping Loosestrife, JL 

 Nummularia, t. 528, and Creeping Crow- 

 foot, Ranunculus repens, t. 516. 



Adscendens, ascending obliquely without sup- 

 port, as Panicum sanguinale, t. 849. 



Prostratus, prostrate, or Depressus 9 de- 

 pressed, when it lies remarkably flat, 



