lOG OF THE DIFFERENT 



With respect to mode of growth, the Stem is 



Erectus, upright, as in Yellow Loosestrife, Lysimachia 

 vulgaris. Efigl. Bot. t. 761. 



Procumbens, procumbent. Wood Loosestrife, L. nem- 

 orum, t. 527. (19) 



Repens., creeping, Creeping Loosestrife, L. Nummula' 

 rla^ t. 528, and Creeping Crowfoot, Ranunculus rep' 

 ens,t. 516. (20) 



Adsceiidens, ascending obliquel}^ without support, as 

 Panicum sangumale, t. 849. (21) 



Prostratus, prostrate, or Depressus, depressed, when it 

 lies remarkably fiat, spreading horizontally over the 

 ground, as in Coldenia procumhens ; also Coronopus 

 Rudliu Swine's-cress, Engl. Bot. t. 1660. 



Reclinatua, reclining, curved towards the ground, as in 

 Ficus, the Fig, Rubus, the Bramble, &c. 



Rndicans,/. 19, clinging to any other body for support, 

 by means of fibres, which do not imbibe nourishment, 

 as Hedera Helix., Engl. Bot. t. 1267, Fitis quinquefo- 

 lia^ Sm. Insects of Georgia^ t. 30. Bignotiia radi- 

 cans^ Curt. Mag. t. 485.(22) — Linnaeus, Philosoph- 

 ia Botannica 59, has expressed this by the term re- 

 pens. but has corrected it in his own copy. Still he 

 does not distinguish between these plants, and those 



(19) [Lying along the ground, as in Knot grass, Polygonum 

 avicularct and Purslane, Portulacca oleracea.'] 



(20) [Native.] 



(21) [The Panicum sanguinale^ or fingered grass, with us 

 usually sends forth roots from the lower joints, and is not strict- 

 ly without support.] 



(22) [The two last are American plants.] 



