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growing out of it at regular inter\als. I^ach of 

 these joints ''or nodes i taki's root and forms a 

 sejjarate |)lant. W hat are calK-d strawberr)- 

 ruiuiers are stems of this kind, and so are the 

 creeping stems of rotciililla rcpta)ts. 



POA Htl.MOSA. 



I once found a phmt of the latter growing on 

 a low wall, and, as I imagine, because it desired 

 to reach the ground and root itself there, it had 

 thrown down a stem a ward aiul a lialf long with 

 eight N'oung plants growing upon it at inter\als 



