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TABLE VI. 



30 Rigidus, hard, not easily bent. 



31 Laxus, loose, easily bent. 



32 Obliquus, awry, in a direction neither perpendicular nor hq? 



rizontal. 



33 Adscendens, rising upwards, with a curve like an arch. 



34 Declinatus, declined, bending downwards archways. 



35 Incurvatus, incurvate, bending inwards. 



36 Nutans, nodding, the top or head bent downwards. 



37 Diffusus, diffuse, with spreading branches. 



38 Procumbens, procumbent, lying on the ground. 



39 Stoloniferus, producing shoots, or runners from the root. 



40 Sarmentosus, thread-like, producing roots from the joints. 



41 Repens, creeping, trailing on the ground, and here and there 



producing roots. 



42 Radicans, rooting, striking root laterally, and fixing to other 



bodies. 



43 Geniculatus, jointed, divided by knots or round swellings. 



44 Flexuosus, waved, bent backwards arid forwards from bud 



to bud. 



45 Scandens, climbing, generally by the support of some other 



body. 



46 Volubilis, twilling, growing round some other body in a 



spiral ascending direction. 



a. Dextrorsum, twining from the right to the left. 



b. Sinistrorsum, twining from the left to the right, 



IV. Figure. 



47 Teres, round, cylinder-shaped without angles. 



48 Semiteres, half found, semicylindrical. 



49 Compressus, flattened, with two opposite sides flat. 



50 Anceps, two-edged, flattened, with two opposite sides sharp. 



51 Angulatus, angulated, having three or more angles formed 



by as many intermediate longitudinal cavities. 



a. Acutangulus, sharp-angled. 



b. Obtusangulus, obtusely -angled. 



*>2 Triqueter, three-sided, having three sides that are (juite flat. 



