INDEX. 



Abortion of teudrils, 200 



Adlumia cirrhosa, 76 



Advantages gained by cUmting, 189 



Alisma, spontaneous movement of, 198 



Anguria Warscewiczij, 136 [205 



America, number of climbing plants of, 



Ampelopsis hederacea, 144 



Bates, Mr., on number of arboreal 

 animals in America, 205 [202 



Bean, common, abortion of tendrils, 200, 



Bignonia, various species of, bearing 

 tendrils, 86 



Brassica napus, spontaneous movement 

 of peduncles, 198 



Bryonia dioics^ 131, 136 



Caoutchouc secreted by roots of Ficus 

 repens, 186 



Cardiospermum halicacabum, 150 



Ceropegia Gardnerii, 6 



, manner of twining, 20 



, a species which has lost the 



power of twining in South Africa, 42 



Cissus discolor, 143 



Clematis, various species of, leaf- 

 climbers, 46 



Cobsa scandens, 106 



Combretum, 41 



Corydalis claviculata, 121 



Cucurbitaceae, nature of tendrils, 1 27 



Cacurbita pepo, aborted tendrils, 200 



Cuscuta, stems of, irritable, 17, 71 



Dicentra thalictrifolia, 124 



Dipladenia, furnished with hooks, 184 



Discs, adhesive, developed by tendrils, 

 94, 100, 135, 136, 145, 179 



Dutrochet, reference to papers on 

 climbing plants, 1 



Ekicremocarpus scaber, 103 



Echinocystis lobata, 128 



Ferns, twining, 38 



Ficus repens, a root-climber, 185 



Fiagellaria Indica, 79 



Flower-peduncles of Manrandia sensi- 

 tive, and revolve spontaneously, 67 



Fumaria officinalis, 75 



Galium aparine, a hook-climber, 183 



Gradations of structure leading to the 

 development of perfect tendrils, 195, 

 196 



Gray, Asa, reference to paper on 

 tendrils of Cucurbitacese, 1 



on tendrils of PassiHora, 154 



Sicyos, 172 



on Rosa setigera, 3 84 



Gloriosa Plantii, 78 



Haaburya Mexicana, 334; 



Harvey, Prof., on the loss of power of 

 twining, 42 



Hedei:i helix, 185, 188 



Hibbertia dentata, 35 [203 



, shoots of, turn downwards, 



Hofmeister, on irritability of young 

 petioles, 197 



Hook-climbers, 183 



Hop, powers of twining, 2 



Hoya carnosa, 6, 43, 185 



Humulus lupulus, 2 



India-rubber secreted by roots of Ficus 

 repens, 186 



Ipomcea argyrseoides, 42 



Ivy, 185, 188 [183, 199 



Jaeger, Prof. G., on climbing plants, 



Kerner, on the irritability of flower- 

 peduncles, 197 



Lathyrus aphaca, 115 



, probable manner of de- 

 velopment of its tendrils, 201 



J grandiflorus, 116 



nissolia, grass-like leaves replacing 



tendrils, 201 



Leaves, position of, on twining plants, 19 



Leaf-climbers, 45 



summary on, 81 



climb more securely than 



twiners, 192 



L^on, M., on a variety of Pbaseolus, 42 



, on spiral contraction of ten- 

 drils, 166 



Light, action on twining plants, 40 



, avoidance of, by tendrils, 98, 105, 



110, 138, 145, 175 



Linum, spontaneous movement of, 198 



Loasa aurantiaca, 34 

 Lophospermum scandens, 71 

 Lygodium articulatum, 38 

 M'Nab, Dr., on Ampelopsis Veitchii, 146 

 Marcgravia, a root-climber, 185, 188 

 Masters, Br. M., on torsion, 10 



