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On the movements and habits of climbing plants (1865)
Charles Darwin, edited by Journal of the Linnean Society

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green and Williams and Norgate, page Title

Charles Darwin2497659On the movements and habits of climbing plants1865Journal of the Linnean Society

ON THE


MOVEMENTS AND HABITS


OF


CLIMBING PLANTS.


BY

CHARLES DARWIN, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S. etc.


From the Journal of the Linnean Society.


LONDON:

SOLD AT THE SOCIETY'S APARTMENTS, BURLINGTON HOUSE;

AND BY

LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS & GREEN,

AND

WILLIAMS AND NORGATE.

1865.

Table of Contents.

PAGE PAGE
Introduction
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1
Axial twisting
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5
Nature of the revolving movement
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7
Purpose of the revolving movement, and manner of the spiral ascent
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9
Table of the rates of revolution
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14
Anomalous revolvers
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21
Variations in the power of twining
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
24
Clematis
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
26
Tropæolum
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
34
Antirrhineæ
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
38
Solanum
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
41
Fumariaceæ
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
43
Cocculus
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
45
Gloriosa
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45
Flagellaria
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
46
Nepenthes
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
46
Summary on Leaf-climbers
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47
Bignoniaceæ
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
49
Polemoniaceæ
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
61
Leguminosæ
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
65
Compositæ
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
67
Smilaceæ
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
68
Fumariaceæ
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
70
Cucurbitaceæ
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
73
Vitaceæ
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
79
Sapindaceæ
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
87
Passifloraceæ
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89
Spiral contraction of tendrils
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92
Summary of the nature and action of tendrils
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98
Hook-climbers
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105
Root-climbers
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105
Concluding remarks on Climbing-plants
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107

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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