92 OF THE DIFFERENT 



his own copy. Still he does not distinguish be- 

 tween these plants, and those whose stems throw 

 out real roots, which last only are justly called 

 creeping, whether they grow on the ground, like 

 those above mentioned, or on other plants like 

 Cuscuta, Dodder, Engl. Bot. t. 55 and 378. 

 See p. 73. 



Scandens,* climbing; either with spiral tendrils for 

 its support, as the Vine, Pit is, the various species 

 of Passion-flower, Passiflora ccerulea, Curt. Mag. 

 t. 28, alata, t. 66, c. and Bryonia dioica, Red- 

 berried Bryony, Engl. Bot. t. 4,39 ; or by adhe- 

 sive fibres, as in the preceding paragraph. 



Pbhibilis, twining round other plants by its own 

 spiral form, either from left to right,/! 20, sup- 

 posing the observer in the centre, (or in other 

 words, according to the apparent motion of the 

 sun,) as the Black Bryony, Tamm communis, 

 Engl. Bot. t. 91, the Honeysuckles, Lonicera 

 CaprifoUum, t. 799, and Pericli/menum, t. 800, 

 and the Polygonum Convolvulus, t. 94 1 ; or from 

 right to left, f. 21, contrary to the sun, as the 

 Great Bindweed, Convolvulus scpium, t. 313, 

 the French Bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, Ger. em. 

 1212,y/'. \ 9 c. Figures of plants being some- 

 times reversed by the engraver, in that case give 

 a wrong representation of the circumstance in 

 question, witness Lonicera Periclymenum in 

 Curtis's Flora Londinensis, fasc. 1. t. 15, and 



