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 118 spreading horizontally over the ground, as in Coldenia procumbens; also Coronopus Ruellii, Swine's-cress. Eng. Bot. t. 1660.

Reclinatus, reclining, curved towards the ground, as in Ficus, the Fig, Rubus, the Bramble, &c.

Radicans, clinging to any other body for support, by means of fibres, which do not imbibe nourishment, as Ivy, ''Hedera Helix, Engl. Bot. t. 1267, Vitis quinquefolia, Sm. Insects of Georgia, t. 30. Bignonia radicans, Curt. Mag. t. 485.—Linnæus, Philosophia Botanica 39, has expressed this by the term repens'', but has corrected it in his own copy. Still he does not distinguish between 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. 95.

Scandens, climbing; either with spiral tendrils for its support, as the Vine, Vitis, the various species of Passion-flower, Passiflora cærulea, ''Curt. Mag. t.'' 28,