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ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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Stipular tendrils of the common Smilax, - - 6! 

 Leaf-stalk tendrils of Atragene alpina, 691 

 Branch-tendrils of Serjania gramatophora, 

 Tendrils of the Bryony (Bryonia), - - 696 



Light-avoiding Tendrils of Vitis inserta and Vitis 



fiQQ 



inconstans, 



Ivy (Hedera Helix) fastened by climbing roots to 



the trunk of an Oak, 7 3 



Ficus with girdle-like clasping roots, - - - 705 

 Ficus Benjamina with incrusting climbing roots, 707 

 Bignonia argyro-violacea, from Brazil, - 709 

 Ficus with lattice-forming climbing roots, - - 711 

 Bamboos in Java, 



The Oak, 



The Silver Fir (Abies pectinata), 

 Birch Trunks with white membraneous bark, - 721 

 Eucalyptus trees in Australia, - - - - 723 

 Diagrammatic representation of various combined 



girders, 728 



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 Transverse sections of erect foliage-stems with 



simple girders not fused together into a tube, 729 

 Transverse sections of erect foliage-stems with 



simple girders fused into cylindrical tubes, - 730 

 Transverse sections of erect foliage-stems with 



flanges developed as secondary girders, - 731 

 Transverse section of the climbing stem of the 



Atragene (Atragene alpina), 



Undulations of old ribbon-shaped Liane stems, - 734 

 Transverse sections of a runner of the Garden 



Strawberry and of the Water Milfoil, - - 735 

 Branch of the Walnut-tree with hanging male 



catkins, and a small cluster of female flowers, 742 

 India-rubber Tree (Ficus elastica) and Banyan- 

 tree (Ficus Indica), - 



The Screw Pine (Pandanus utilis), - - - 758 

 Stilt-like and columnar roots of Mangroves, - 759 

 Bramble-bush in which the branches have taken 



root, 769 



