120 OF THE DIFFERENT 



Common Jasmine, Jasminum officinale, 

 Curt. Mag, t. 31, or Virginian Silk, 

 Periploca grceca, Fl. Graze, t. 249- 



Sarmentosus, trailing. A creeping stem, 

 barren of flowers, thrown out from the 

 root for the purpose of increase, is 

 called sarmentum or fiagellum, a run- 

 ner, as in the Strawberry, Fragaria 

 vesca, Engl Bot. t. 1524. When leafy 

 it is generally denominated stolo, a 

 sucker or scyon, as in Bugle, Ajuga 

 reptans, t. 489, and Viola odorata, the 

 Sweet Violet, t. 619. When the stolo 

 has taken root, it sometimes flowers 

 the first year, see Curt. Fond. fasc. 1. 

 t. 63, but generally not till the follow- 

 ing season. 



Rectus, straight, as in Lilium, the dif- 

 ferent species of garden Lily. 



Strictus, expresses only a more absolute 

 degree of straightness. 



Laxus or Diffusm, loosely spreading, has 

 a contrary meaning, as in Bunias Ca- 

 kile, Sea Rocket, Engl Bot. t. 231, and 

 Sedum acre, Biting Stone-crop, t. 839. 



Fkxuosus, zigzag, forming angles alter- 



