113 OF THE DIFFERENT 



spreading horizontally over the ground, 

 as in Coldenia procumhens; also Coro- 

 7iopus Ruellii, Swine Vcress. Engl. Bot. 

 t. 1660. 



Reclinotus, reclining, curved towards the 

 ground, as in Ficus, the Fig, Riibus, the 

 Bramble, &c. 



Radicans,f. 19, clinging to any other body 

 for support, by means of fibres, which do 

 not imbibe nourishment, as Ivy, Triedera 

 Helir, Engl Bot. t. 1 l6l, Vitis qinn- 

 quefoUa^ Sm. Insects of Georgia^ t. 30. 

 Bignoma radicans, Curt. Mag. t. 485. 

 — Linnaeus, Philosophia Botanica 39, 

 has expressed this by the term repensy 

 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 Ciiscuta, Dodder, 

 Engl. Bot. t. 5b and 378. See p. 95. 

 Scaridens, climbing ; either with spiral 

 tendrils for its support, as the Vine, Vitis^ 

 the various species of Passion-flower, 

 Fassijiora ccEvuka^ Curt. Mag. t, 28, 



