Botany for young people. How plants behave: how they move, climb, employ insects to work for them, &c (1872)
Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 · New York, American Book Company · leaf 20
14 HOW PLANTS CLIMB. plants of the same family, with simple leaves, climb freely in this way, neatly coiling their leafstalk round any slender support within reach. The vignette title-page shows two illustrations of this, in the lower part. … Fig. 4. Soianum jasminoides, climbing by 18. To understand how leaves or leafstalks lay its leafstalks. hold of a support, we must refer back to the Sen- sitive Plant (Paragraph 2) ; its leaves and leafstalks, we know, respond to the touch of a foreign body by a movement. So do those of…
Botany
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