THE JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY 



AND 



NATURAL SCIENCE: 



the journal of 

 The Postal Microscopical Society. 



OCTOBER, 1886. 



Ibow plants Climb. 



By H. W. S. Worsley-Benison, F.L.S., 



Lecturer on Botany at Westminster Hospital ; Late President of 

 the Highbury Microscopical and Scientific Society. 



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O WARDS the close of a paper on The Power of 

 Movement in Plants^ I briefly referred to this power 

 as exhibited by many climbing plants. I then said 

 that such movements came under the third or last 

 class of the three which we then discussed — viz., 

 motion occurring in living parts of plants diwing 

 active growth. 



I promised at some future time to say some- 

 thing more in detail concerning the various 

 methods by which this climbing process is accomplished ; this 

 paper is an attempt, in some small degree, to redeem my promise. 

 That plants do cHmb, no one who takes an ordinary country 

 walk, or sees the row of scarlet runners in his garden, or looks at 

 a Virginia creeper, with its exquisite October hues, can for one 

 moment question. How and why they do so, very few stay to 

 enquire. 



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