KINDS OF STEMS, 109 



Brachiatus, brachiate, or four-rankeJ, when they spread 

 in four directions, crossing each other ahernately in 

 pairs ; a very common mode of growth in shrubs that 

 have opposite leaves, as the Common Lilac, Syringa 

 vulgaris. 



Ramosissimus, much branched, is applied to a stem re- 

 peatedly subdivided into a great many branches with- 

 out order, as that of an Apple- or Pear-tree, or Goose- 

 berry bush. 



Prolifery proliferous, shooting out new branches from 

 the summits of the former ones*, as in the Scotch 

 Fir, Pinus st/hestris, Lamberfs Pi?ius, t. 1. and Ly- 

 copodiiim annotinum, Engl. Bot. t. 1727. This is 

 obsolete, and seldom used. 



Determinate ramosus, f. 23, abruptly branched, when 

 each branch, after terminating in flowers, produces a 

 number of fresh shoots in a circular order from just 

 below the origin of those flowers. This term occurs 

 frequently in the later publications of Linnaeus, par- 

 ticularly the second Mantissa^ but I know not that he 

 has any where explained its meaning. It is exempli- 

 fied in Azalea nudijlora^ (26) Ciii't. Mag. t. 180, Erica 

 Tetralix, Engl. Bot. t. 1014, many Cape Heaths, 

 and other shrubs of the same Natural Order. (27) 



?^ Linn. Phil. Bot. sect. 82. 28. 



(26) [Native.] 



(27) \_Verticillatus, a verticillate stem gives off its branches at 

 regular intervals in whorls, like rays from a centre, as in the 

 White Pine, Pinus strobus. 



Divaricatus, a divaricate stem, sends its branches obliquely- 

 downward, so as to form an obtuse angle with the stem above, 

 and an acute angle below.] 



