 | 1870 - 726 pages
...dragging up the stem and forming an excellent spring. All movements now cea?e. By growth the tissues soon become wonderfully strong and durable. The tendril...done its work, and done it in an admirable manner." OUR PAEIS CORRESPONDENT. MY DEAR C , After a storm a calm, says the wisdom of nations, and so it has... | |
 | 1867 - 574 pages
...dragging up the stem, and forming an excellent spring. All movements now cease. By growth the tissues soon become wonderfully strong and durable. The tendril...done its work, and done it in an admirable manner. Letters from Sir H. BAKKLY and SWINBUBNE WAUD, Esq., relative to the Coco do Mer. [Bead Nov. 3, 1864.]... | |
 | 1867 - 588 pages
...forming an excellent spring. All movements now cease. By growth the tissue soon becomes wonderfully tough and durable. The tendril has done its work, and done it in an admirable manner. In flg. l we have an example of the first class, representing two young leaves of the Ciérnala glaudulosa... | |
 | John Traherne Moggridge - 1874 - 444 pages
...had at the Society's rooms and elsewhere. f "On the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants," p. 118. wonderfully strong and durable. The tendril has done its work, and done it in an admirable manner." EXPLANATION OF PLATE LXXXJI. — Fig. A 1, ovary and style, with hypogynous disk, magnified. Fig. B... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - 400 pages
...dragging up the stem, and forming an excellent spring. All movements now cease. By growth the tissues soon become wonderfully strong and durable. The tendril has done its work, and has done it in an admirable manner. INDEX. Abortion of tendrils, 200 Adlumia cirrhosa, 76 Advantages... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1876 - 242 pages
...dragging up the stem, and forming an excellent spring. All movements now cease. By growth the tissues soon become wonderfully strong and durable. The tendril has done its work, and has done it in an admirable manner. INDEX. Abortion of tendrils, 200 Adlumia cirrhosa, 76 Advantages... | |
 | John Bascom - 1878 - 310 pages
...dragging up the stem and forming an excellent spring. All movements now cease. By growth the tissues soon become wonderfully strong and durable. The tendril has done its work, and has done it in an admirable manner." * Our purpose in bringing these facts together is simply to emphasize... | |
 | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - 1881 - 484 pages
...dragging up the stem and forming an excellent spring. All movements now cease. By growth the tissues soon become wonderfully strong and durable. The tendril has done its work, and has done it in an admirable manner." * 1 Darwin, " Movements of Climbing Plants," p. 206. CHAPTER X.... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1884 - 396 pages
...dragging up the stem, and forming an excellent spring. All movements now cease. By growth the tissues soon become wonderfully strong and durable. The tendril has done its work, and has done it in an admirable manner. The Power It is impossible not to be struck with the fa Plants"611... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - 224 pages
...dragging up the stem, and forming an excellent spring. All movements now cease. By growth the tissues soon become wonderfully strong and durable. The tendril has done its work, and has done it in an admirable manner." The labour of revising the successive editions of the " Origin... | |
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The tendril strikes some object, and quickly curls round and firmly grasps it. In the course of some hours it contracts into a spire, dragging up the stem, and forming an excellent spring. All movements now cease. By growth the tissues soon become wonderfully... 
