CLIMBING PLANTS. 



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Fig. 168,-Ficus with girdle-like clasping roots, at Darjeeling in the Sikkim Himalayas. (Fron. a photograph.) 



climbing roots grow out directly to the wall. This is usually the case with 

 climbing plants. Several Aroideae and species of Ficus, and especially our ivy 

 (Hedera Helix), the shoots of which occur anywhere at the foot of a tree^rujik or 



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