44 TWINING PLANTS. Cuar. L 
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 Miller has published climbing plants in ‘ Bot. Zeitung, 
some interesting facts and views 1866, pp. 57, 65. 
on the structure of the wood of 
