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irately from right to left and from left to 

 right, as in Smilax aspera, Ger, em. 

 859, and many of that genus, also St a- 

 tice reticulata, Matted Sea Lavender, 

 Engl. Bot. t. 328. In a less degree it is 

 not unfrequent. See A triplex peduncu- 



lata, t, 232. 

 Alt erne ramosus, alternately branched, as 

 Polygonum minus, t. 1043, Dianthus 

 delloides, fc 61, &c. 

 Distichus, two-ranked, when the branches 

 spread in two horizontal directions, as in 

 the Silver Fir, Finns picea, Duhamel, 

 Arb, v. ht. 1. 

 JBrachiatus, brachiate, or four-ranked, 

 when they spread in four directions, 

 crossing each other alternately in pairs ; 

 a very common mode of growth in 

 shrubs that have opposite leaves, as the 

 Common Lilac, Syringa vulgaris. 

 Jtamosissimus,much branched, is applied to 

 a stem repeatedly subdivided into a great 

 many branches without order, as that of 

 an Apple or Pear-tree, or Gooseberry- 

 bush. 

 Vrolifer, proliferous, shooting out new 



