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 23
n from which least light comes, — an instinct which is apt to lead them to a support, — and the two forks diverge, as if feeling for something to lay hold of. When they reach anything that can be surrounded, one fork commonly grasps from one side, the other from the opposite side, somewhat as an… … Fig. 7. Virginia Creeper : tendril beginning to form its disks or holdfasts. 8. Older themselves remain branches with full-formed disks. slender, and in a week or two shrink and wither away. Those that do usually spread their branches widely apart, like fingers of an outstretched hand, form their…
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