# On the movements and habits of climbing plants

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green and Williams and Norgate, page Title
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 .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1 Part I.—Spirally twining Plants. Axial twisting .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Nature of the revolving movement .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Purpose of the revolving movement, and manner of the spiral ascent .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9 Table of the rates of revolution .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Anomalous revolvers .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Variations in the power of twining .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 24 Part II.—Leaf-climbers. Clematis .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 26 Tropæolum .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 34 Antirrhineæ .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 38 Solanum .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 41 Fumariaceæ .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 43 Cocculus .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 45 Gloriosa .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 45 Flagellaria .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 46 Nepenthes .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 46 Summary on Leaf-climbers .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 47 | Part III.—Tendril-bearers. Bignoniaceæ .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 49 Polemoniaceæ .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 61 Leguminosæ .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 65 Compositæ .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 67 Smilaceæ .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 68 Fumariaceæ .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 70 Cucurbitaceæ .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 73 Vitaceæ .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 79 Sapindaceæ .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 87 Passifloraceæ .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 89 Spiral contraction of tendrils .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 92 Summary of the nature and action of tendrils .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 98 Part IV.—Hook- and Root-climbers; Concluding Remarks. Hook-climbers .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 105 Root-climbers .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 105 Concluding remarks on Climbing-plants .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 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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