Crossword-Solution: REPENS 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Trailing arbutus (Bot.), a creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family (Epig‘a repens), having white or usually roseÐcolored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; Ð called also ground laurel.

The Chinese on their side demanded the return of all captured cities and territory; while the Manchus, who refused to consider any such terms, suggested that China should pay them a huge subsidy in money, silk, etc., in return for which they offered but a moderate supply of furs, and something over half a ton of ginseng (_Panax repens_), the famous forked root said to resemble the human body, and much valued by the Chinese as a strengthening medicine.

The end of a leaf of _Triticum repens_, still attached to a growing plant, had been drawn into a burrow, and this part was dark brown and dead, whilst the rest of the leaf was fresh and green.

The genus _Ficus_ abounds with caoutchouc, and we may conclude from the facts just given that this substance, at first in solution and ultimately modified into an unelastic cement, {187} is used by the _Ficus repens_ to cement its rootlets to any surface which it ascends.

You have, however, Ranunculus repens, Ranunculus parviflorus, Papaver rhoeas,? Papaver dubium,? Chelidonium majus,? Fumaria officinalis.? All these are Azorean plants.