44 TWINING PLANTS. Chap. 1 



and twine, but likewise emit rootlets which adhere to 

 any fitting surface, so that the loss of twining would 

 be no great disadvantage and in some respects an 

 advantage to these species, as they would then ascend 

 their supports in a more direct line.* 



» Fritz Mailer has published climbing plants in ' £ot. Zeitnne,' 

 some interesting facts and views 1866, pp. 57, 65. 

 on the structure of the wood of 



