New Zealand plants and their story . Climbing-leaves of the bush-lawyer {Rvbus ausiralis), showing the midribs lirovidecl with hooked prickles. Trans. Inst.] [J- T^- Sird del. for the light of heaven, and under its beneficent influence bring forththeir flowers, ripen their fruits, and manufacture stores of foodwithin their green leaves. Lianes, as explained in Chapter II, may be conveniently andnaturally divided into scramblers, root-cUmbers, twiners, and tendril-climbers—names which speak for themselves. The shrub-fuchsia{Fuchsia Colensoi), a much more slender plant than the tree-fuchsia
New Zealand plants and their story . Climbing-leaves of the bush-lawyer {Rvbus ausiralis), showing the midribs lirovidecl with hooked prickles. Trans. Inst.] [J- T^- Sird del. for the light of heaven, and under its beneficent influence bring forththeir flowers, ripen their fruits, and manufacture stores of foodwithin their green leaves. Lianes, as explained in Chapter II, may be conveniently andnaturally divided into scramblers, root-cUmbers, twiners, and tendril-climbers—names which speak for themselves. The shrub-fuchsia{Fuchsia Colensoi), a much more slender plant than the tree-fuchsia{F. excorticata), offers a transition to the scrambling habit, beingfrequently merely a shrub in the open, but in the forest at other THE CLIMBING-APPARATUS OF RUBUS. 51 times a true liane, its thin shoots being thrust amongst the branchesof another tree for support. Here there is no special differenti-ation of climbing-organs ; but in the various species of Rubus—also scramblers—it is different. On their leaf-stalks and midri
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