KINDS OF STEMS. 121 



nately from right to left and from left to 

 right, as in Sniila.v aspera, Gcr. em, 

 859, 3nd many of that genus, also 67a- 

 tice reticulata^ Matted Sea Lavender, 

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

 not unfrequent. See Atriplex jjcduncU" 

 lata, t. 232. 



Alt erne ramosaSy alternately branched, as 

 Foli/gonum minus, t. 1043, Dianihus 

 deltoides, t. 6l, &c. 



Distichus, two-ranked, when the branches 

 spread in two horizontal directions, as in 

 the Silver Fir, Finns picca, Duhamel, 

 Alb. V. 1. t. 1. 



Brachiatus, 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, Si/ringa vulgaris. 



Ttamosissimus, 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. 

 Frolifcr, proliferous, shooting out new 



