On the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants / Charles Darwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Darwin, Charles, author.

Series:

Cambridge library collection. Darwin, Evolution and Genetics.

Cambridge library collection. Darwin, Evolution and Genetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climbing plants.

Irritability and movements.

Plants.

Local Subjects:

Climbing plants.

Irritability and movements.

Plants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (128 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

On the Movements & Habits of Climbing Plants

Place of Publication:

Place of publication not identified : publisher not identified, 1865.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Initially published by the Linnean Society, this 1865 essay was Darwin's first foray into the study of climbing plants. He was inspired to produce this work by a paper on the tendrilled Cucurbitacean plant by American botanist Asa Gray, with whom he had a firm intellectual friendship. Darwin examines in detail those plants which climb using a twisting stem, such as the hop; leaf-climbers, such as the clematis; tendrilled plants such as the passion flower; and hook and root climbers such as ivy. The conclusions reached by his study are presented in terms of the adaptations of various species to their environments, a continuation of the theories that Darwin had propounded in his On the Origin of the Species six years earlier. His passion for the design of the plants and fascination with the diversity of their powers of movement are clear in this accessible example of the process of evolution.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

9780511703010

0511703015