THE ASCENDING AXIS 



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Fig. 341. Spotted Prince's Pine, entire plant; the stem is a "leaf-stem." 

 Fig. 342. Diclytra (Z>, cucullana), whole plant; it has a "scale-stem." 



Ill growing, but often becomes oblique or horizontal. There- 

 fore we have, besides erect sterns^ stems pj'ostrate, procumbe7it, 

 trailing^ when running along flat on the ground, or over 

 bushes, as the Partridge-beny, "White Wintergreen (Fig. S-iS) ; 

 and, also, stems decumbent^ first arising and afterwards re- 

 clining on the ground, as the Poor-man's-weather-glass (Fig. 

 344). 



225. There are, also, siibterranean stems, never arising 



224. What of the direction of the growth of stems ? How does the stem 

 of White Wintergreen grow ? How the stem of Anagallis ? 



