ON THE
MOVEMENTS AND HABITS
OF
CLIMBING PLANTS.
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I was led to this subject by an interesting, but too short, paper by Professor Asa Gray on the movements of the tendrils of some Cucurbitaceous plants[ 1] . My observations were more than half completed before I became aware that the surprising phenomenon of the spontaneous revolutions of the steins and tendrils of climbing plants had been long ago observed by Palm and by Hugo von Mohl[ 2] , and had subsequently been the subject of two
↑ Proc. Amer. Acad, of Arts and Sciences, vol. iv. Aug. 12, 1858, p. 98.
↑ Ludwig H. Palm, Ueber das Winden der Pflanzen; Hugo von Mold, Ueber den Bau and das Winden der Ranken und Schlingpflanzen, 1827. Palm's