...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." Movements of Seedlings. — We have seen how Darwin began to believe...

...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." My next illustrations will be taken from Darwin's observations...

...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. "Spreading out their branches in contact with any nearly flat surface,...

...steady motion. The tendril strikes some object, and quickly curls round, and -firmly grasps it. lu tho course of some hours it contracts into a spire, dragging...plant, on contact with, or even on the approach of, n foreign body. One of the most familiar examples is that of the Sensitive Plant, ЛГшгьм púdica...

...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." I could have chosen few better examples of the utility of the spiral formation in Nature. NOTES TO...