OF THE STEM. 91 



leaves altogether, as the Creeping Cereus, Cactus 

 JlageUiformis, Curt, Mag. t. 17, various exotic 



species of Euphorbia or Spurge, and the whole 



genus oi StapeUa. In Orohanche^ it is scaly,y! 18, 



squampsus. 



With respect to mode of growth, the stem is 



ErectuSy upright, as in Yellow Loosestrife, Lysi- 

 machia vulgaris, Engl. Bot. t. 761. 



ProcumbenSf procumbent, Wood Loosestrife, Z. 

 iiemorujn, t. o27. 



Repeiis, creeping, Creeping Loosestrife, L. Num- 

 mularia, ?^. 528, and Creeping Crowfoot, Ranun- 

 culus repensy t. 5 1 6\ 



jidscendens, ascending obliquely without support, 

 as Panicum sanguinale, t. 849- 



Prostratus, prostrate, ovDepressus, depressed, when 

 it lies remarkably flat, spreading horizontally over 

 the ground, as in Coldenia procumhens ; also 

 Coronopus Ruellii, Swine's-cress, Engl. Bot. 

 t. 1660. 



Reclinatus, reclining, curved towards the ground, 

 as in FicuSj the Fig, Rubus, the Bramble, &c. 



RadicanSy f. 19, clinging to any other body for 

 support, by means of fibres which do not imbibe 

 nourishment, as Ivy, Hedera Heli.r, Engl. Bot. 

 1. 1 267, VitisquinquefoUay Sm. Insects of Georgia y 

 t. 30. Bignonia radicans, Curt. Mag. t. 485. — 

 Linnaeus, Philosophia Botanica ^^^ has expressed 

 this by the term repens, but has corrected it in 



