. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. 116 HOW PLANTS CLIMB taria, Dutchman's pipe, dodder. The free tip of the twining branch sweeps about in curves, much as the tendril does, until it finds support or becomes old and rigid. 243. Each kind of plant usually coils in only one direction. Most plants coil against the sun, or from the observer's. 178. Clematis climbs by means of its leaf-stalks. left across his front to his right as he faces the plant. Such plants are said to be antitropic, or to move against the sun from the positio


. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. 116 HOW PLANTS CLIMB taria, Dutchman's pipe, dodder. The free tip of the twining branch sweeps about in curves, much as the tendril does, until it finds support or becomes old and rigid. 243. Each kind of plant usually coils in only one direction. Most plants coil against the sun, or from the observer's. 178. Clematis climbs by means of its leaf-stalks. left across his front to his right as he faces the plant. Such plants are said to be antitropic, or to move against the sun from the position in which the observer stands. Examples are bean, morning-glory. The hop twines from the right to his left; such plants are eutropic (with the sun). Fig. 179 shows the two Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York, Macmillan


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