OF THE STEM. C)l 



leaves altogether, as the Creeping Cereus, Cactus 



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



species of Euphorbia or Spurge, and the whole 



genus of Stapelia. In Orobanche, it is scaly,yi 18, 



squamosus. 



With respect to mode of growth, the stem is 



Erectus, upright, as in Yellow Loosestrife, Lysi- 

 machia vulgar is, EngL Bot. t. 761. 



Procumbens, procumbent, Wood Loosestrife, L. 

 nemorum, t. 527. 



Repensy creeping, Creeping Loosestrife, L. Num- 

 mularia, .528, and Creeping Crowfoot, Ranun- 

 culus repens, t. 5 1 6*. 



Adscendens, ascending obliquely without support, 

 as Panicum sanguinale, t. 849. 



Prostratus, prostrate, or Depressus, depressed, when 

 it lies remarkably flat, spreading horizontally over 

 the ground, as in Coldenia procumbens ; also 

 Coronopus RuelHi, Swine's-cress, EngL Bot. 

 t. 1660. 



Reclinatus, reclining, curved towards the ground, 

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



Radicans, f. 19, clinging to any other body for 

 support, by means of fibres which do not imbibe 

 nourishment, as Ivy, Hedcra HelLv, Engl. Bot. 

 1. 1267, VitisquinquefoHa,Sm. Insects of Georgia, 

 t. 30. Bignonia radicam, Curt. Mag. t. 4*85. 

 Linnaeus, Philosophia Botanica 39, has expressed 

 this by the term repens, but has corrected it in 



