ILLUSTRATIONS, 



Stipular tendrils of the common Smilax, - 

 Leaf-stalk tendrils of Atragene alpina, 

 Branch-tendrils of Serjania gramatophora, - 

 Tendrils of the Bryony [Bryonia), 

 Light-avoiding Tendrils of Vitts inserta and Vit 



inconstans, ------ 



Ivy (Hedera Helix) fastened by climbing roots to 



the trunk of an Oak, - - - - 



Ficus with girdle-like clasping roots, - 

 Ficus Benjamina with incrusting climbing roots, 

 Biynuiiia argyro-violacea, from Brazil, 

 Ficus with lattice-forming climbing roots, - 



Bamboos in Java, 



The Oak, 



The Silver Fir (^62es pcc<znafa). 



Birch Trunks with white membraneous bark. 



Eucalyptus trees in Australia, - 



Diagrammatic representation of various combined 



girders, 



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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), • - - 733 



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), - . - - 755 

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

 Stilt-like and columnar roots of Mangroves, - 759 

 Bramble-bush in which the branches have taken 



root, 769 



