100 TENDRIL-BEARERS. Cua. III. 
curled round and firmly seized an excessively minute 
projecting point of bark, and then the other branches 
spread themselves out, following with accuracy every 
inequality of the surface. I afterwards placed near 
the plant a post without bark but much fissured, and 
the points of the tendrils crawled into all the crevices 
-in a beautiful manner. To my surprise, I observed 
that the tips of the immature tendrils, with the 
branches not yet fully separated, likewise crawled 
just like roots into the minutest crevices. In two 
or three days after the tips had thus crawled into 
the crevices, or after their hooked ends had seized 
minute points, the final process, now to be described, 
commenced. 
This process I discovergd by having accidentally 
W, and this led me to 
KM f wool loosely round 
sticks, and to place them’ ay Ly ils. The wool must 
not be dyed, for these tendrils arg-excessively sensitive 
to some poisons. The hooked/foints soon caught hold 
of the fibres, even loosely floating fibres, and now there 
was no recoiling; on the contrary, the excitement 
caused the hooks to penetrate the fibrous mass and 
to curl inwards, so that each hook caught firmly one 
or two fibres, or a small bundle of them. The tips 
and the inner surfaces of the hooks now began to swell, 
and in two or three days were visibly enlarged. After 
afew more days the hooks were converted into whitish, 
irregular balls, rather above the sth of an inch (1:27 
mm.) in diameter, formed of coarse cellular tissue, 
