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to attach itself to a brick wall, but is well adapted to climb trees with 
rough and mossy bark. 
The Virginia Creeper also turns its tendrils from the light, and, al- 
After adducing some considerations in support of his opinion that both 
leaf-climbers and tendril-bearers “were primordially twiners, that. is, are 
the descendants of plants having this power and habit, Mr. Darwin 
one : ag go t twining plants will see that 
who will look during windy weather 7 so wd tendril-bearers or 
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n ; prep aot hi a still twine, but 
