LECT. VI.] THE STEM. BRANCHING. 261 



Pyrus Malus ; and the Asparagus, Asparagus 

 officinalis. 



c. Diverging (diver gent es), when they go 

 off nearly at right angles with the stem, and 

 appear as if verticillated, without being on the 

 same plane ; as the Stone Pine, Pinus plnea. 



d. Brachiate, four-ranked (brachiati *) (fig. 



m), "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, Sy- 

 " ringa vulgaris *f~." 



e. Divaricated (dwaricati), 

 when the direction is such 

 that the angle formed with 

 the part of the stem above 

 the branch is rather more obtuse than that with 

 the part below it ; as in Fiddle Dock, Rumex 

 pulcher. 



f. Close (conferti), when they are given off 

 irregularly, and stand so thick, as to have ap- 

 parently no spaces betwixt them. 



* " Brachiatus raraos decussatim oppositos habet." Phil. 

 Bot. 82. 25. 



f Smith's Introd. to phys. and system. Bot. 121. 



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