HO OP THE DIFFERENT 



Common Jasmine, Jasminum officinale^ 

 Curt. Mag. t. 31, or Blue Box-thorn, 

 Lyciiun harbarum, 



Sarmentosus, trailing. A creeping stem, 

 barren of flowers, thrown out from the 

 root for the purpose of increase, is 

 called sarmentum ox flagellum, a runner, 

 f. 22, as in the Strawberry, Fragoria 

 vesca, Engl. Bot. t. 1524. When leafy 

 it is generally denominated stolo, a 

 sucker or scyon, as in Bugle, yijuga 

 reptans^ t. 489> ^md Viola odorata, the 

 Sweet Violet, /. 6*19. When the stole 

 has taken root, it sometimes flowers 

 the first year, see Curt. LoncL 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 Diffusus, loosely spreading, has 

 a contrary meaning, as in Bu?iias Ca- 

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

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



Flencosus, zigzag, forming angles alter- 



