Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . ^ clinging to trees or rocks, or in coiling around. pod magnified. other plants in support. Great progress has been made in this departmentof botany within recent years. Darwin has shown that the tendrils of someplants continue in motion for some time in order to find something to clingt
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . ^ clinging to trees or rocks, or in coiling around. pod magnified. other plants in support. Great progress has been made in this departmentof botany within recent years. Darwin has shown that the tendrils of someplants continue in motion for some time in order to find something to clingto. The grapevine especially spends a long time in this labor if there isdifficulty in reaching a host. The plant preserves vital power all this time,but no sooner is support found, than nutrition is cut off, and the tendril dies,though, hard and wiry, it serves its parent plant as a support better dead STORY OF PLANT AND FLOWER 109
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