INDEX. 
Abortion of tendrils, 200 
Adlumia cirrhosa, 76 
Advantages gained by climbing, 189 
Alisma, spontaneous movement of, 198 
Anguria Warscewiczii, 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 dioica, 131, 136 
Caoutchoue secreted by roots of Ficus 
repens, 186 
Cardiospermum halicacabum, 150 
Ceropegia Gardnerii, 6 
, manner of twining, 20 
» @ species which has lost the 
power of twining in South Africa, 42 
Cissus discolor, 143 
Clematis, various 
climbers, +6 
Cobza scandens, 106 
Combretum, 41 
Corydalis claviculata, 121 
Cucurbitacee, nature of tendrils, 127 
‘Cucurbita 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, 185, 136, 145, 179 ; 
Dutrochet, reference to papers on 
climbing plants, 1 
Eccremocarpus scaber, 103 
Echinocystis lobata, 128 
Ferns, twining, 38 
Ficus repens, a root-climber, 185 
Flagellaria Indica, 79 
Flower-peduncles of Maurandia 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, 
19 
species of, leaf- 
Gray, Asa, reference to paper on 
tendrils of Cucurbitacee, 1 
on tendrils of Passiflora, 154 
Sicyos, 172 
on Rosa setigera, 184 
Gloriosa Plantii, 78 
} Hanburya Mexicana, 134 
Harvey, Prof., on the loss of power of 
twining, 42 
Hedeta 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 
Ipomeea argyreoides, 42 
Ivy, 185, 183 [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 
, 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 
Léon, M., on a variety of Phaseolus, 42 
, on spiral contraction of ten- 
drils, 166 
Light, action on twining plants, 40 
, avoidance of, by tendrils, 93, 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 
Maregravia, a root-climber, 185, 188 
Masters, Dr. M., on torsion, 10 
