48 THE GROWTH AND PARTS OF PLANTS 
The strawberry, dewberry, and other prostrate stems 
creep or trail on the ground. We call them creeping or 
trailing stems. The strawberry stem takes root here 
Nereus 

FIG. 77. Prostrate type, —the bog-pimpernel. 
and there and sends up a tuft of leaves and erect 
flower stems. The bog-pimpernel (anagallis) Is a 
beautiful little plant, the stem creeping among the 
mosses of marshy places, sending out roots at intervals 
along its under surface, and bearing leaves in pairs 
and delicate pink flowers. 
The pea, the Virginia creeper, the convolvulus, and 
similar stems cling to other plants, or places of 
support. They are climbing stems. Then there are 
Many stems which neither climb nor creep, nor do they 

