118 OF THE DIFFERENT 



spreading horizontally over the ground, 

 as in Coldenia procumbens; also Corono- 

 pns Rue Hi i, Swine's-cress. Eng. Bot. 

 t. 1660. 



Reclinatiis, reclining, curved towards the 

 ground, as in Ficus, the Fig, Rubus, the 

 Bramble, &c. 



Radicans, clinging to any other body for 

 support, by means of fibres, which do 

 not imbibe nourishment, as Ivy, Hedera 

 Helix, Engl. Bot. t. 1267, Vitis quin- 

 quefolia, Sm. Insects of Georgia, t. 30. 

 Bignonia radicans, Curt. Mag. t. 485. 

 — Linnaeus, Philosophia Botanica 39, 

 has expressed this by the term repens, 

 but has corrected it in his own copy. 

 Still he does not distinguish between 

 these plants, and those whose stems throw 

 out real roots, which last only are justly 

 called creeping, whether they grow on 

 the ground, like those above mentioned, 

 or on other plants like Cuscuta, Dodder, 

 Engl. Bot. t. 55 and 378. See p. 95. 



Scandens, climbing ; either with spiral 

 tendrils for its support, as the Vine, Vitis, 

 the various species of Passion-flower, 

 Passiflora ccerulea, Curt. Mag. I. 2&, 



