Index:Darwin - On the movements and habits of climbing plants.djvu

Title	On the movements and habits of climbing plants
Author	Charles Darwin
Editor	Journal of the Linnean Society
Year	1865
Publisher	Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green and Williams and Norgate
Location	London
Source	djvu
Progress	Proofread—All pages of the work proper are proofread, but not all are validated
Transclusion	Fully transcluded

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Table of Contents.

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Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

1

Part I.—Spirally twining Plants.

Axial twisting ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

5

Nature of the revolving movement ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

7

Purpose of the revolving movement, and manner of the spiral ascent ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

9

Table of the rates of revolution ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

14

Anomalous revolvers ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

21

Variations in the power of twining ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

24

Part II.—Leaf-climbers.

Clematis ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

26

Tropæolum ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

34

Antirrhineæ ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

38

Solanum ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

41

Fumariaceæ ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

43

Cocculus ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

45

Gloriosa ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

45

Flagellaria ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

46

Nepenthes ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

46

Summary on Leaf-climbers ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

47

Part III.—Tendril-bearers.

Bignoniaceæ ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

49

Polemoniaceæ ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

61

Legumiuosæ ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

65

Compositæ ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

67

Smilaceæ ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

68

Fumariaceæ ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

70

Cucurbitaceæ ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

73

Vitaceæ ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

79

Sapindaceæ ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

87

Passifloraceæ ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

89

Spiral contraction of tendrils ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

92

Summary of the nature and action of tendrils ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

98

Part IV.—Hook- and Root-climbers; Concluding Remarks.

Hook-climbers ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

105

Root-climbers ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

105

Concluding remarks on Climbing-plants ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

107