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J^. 841. Spotted Prince's Pine, entire plant; the stem is a "leaf-stem'." 

 Mg. 3i2. Diclytra (D. cumllaria), whole plant; it has a " scale-stem^' 



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

 fore we have, besides erect stems, Btexas prostrate, procumbent, 

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

 bushes, as the Partridge-berry, White "Wintergreen (Fig. 343) ; 

 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, subterranean stems, never arising 



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

 of White Wintergreen grow 1 How the stem of AnagaUis 1 



