LXI Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare Blaspheme the twisted tendril as a Snare?
LXIII Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare Blaspheme the twisted tendril as a Snare?
The nature of the tendril is known by its position.
This is applied to the supporting object, and it adheres firmly; then a shortening of the tendril and its branches by coiling brings up the growing shoot close to the support.
The expanded part below is foliage: this tapers into a tendril for climbing; and this bears a pitcher with a lid.
A tendril from the axil of a leaf, like that of Passion-flowers (Fig.
The girl pulled at a tendrilof the vine with her fingers, eyeing her companion keenly.
A grapevine that had grown about the tree threw the shadow of delicate leaf and curling tendril on her pale cheek and scarlet lips.
They paused momentarily by a vine-covered wall and he felt a cool frond reach out to caress his shoulder while a long tendril curled gracefully about his forearm between the upper and the lower wrists.
The heart, like a tendrilaccustomed to cling, Let it grow where it will, cannot flourish alone, But will lean to the nearest and loveliest thing It can twine with itself, and make closely its own.
The teacher may use his own judgment as to whether he will tell them that the tendril is a modified leaflet.
Buds will be developed in the axils of the nearest leaves, and it will be shown that each is a compound leaf with two appendages at its base, called stipules, and with a tendril at its apex.
Ah mistress rare, divine, Thy lover like a vine With tendril arms entwine.
The line grew: a foot-wide band of light high up on the wall, it thrust itself forward like a tendril of the horrible plants he had seen.
And with the touch he knew that this serpent was no animal shape, but worse--a creeping tendril from some flesh-eating horror of the vegetable world.
Agellius; “and the said dust does more for the protection of the tendril than the shade of the leaf.
I hide the tendril under the leaf against the sun, which is the only enemy we have to consider.
A long tendril of her beautiful corn-silk hair fell across her eyes; her red lips parted in a faint wistful smile; beneath the draperies of her loose gown the pure slender lines of her figure leaned toward him.
Bill saw, when it reached the top of the rock, that it dropped a spiny tendril to the ground.
Like a root, the tendril buried itself into the earth below the jutting rock, and slowly the rock was covered with the flowing fur.
Defn: A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally.
The plants are mostly tendril climbers, and are commonest in the warmer parts of America, though a few species are Asiatic or Australian.
But now the plant is old, what I thought was a branch with two leaves and ending in a tendril looks like a gigantic leaf with two compound leaflets, and the terminal part converted into a tendril.
All other species have two leaves with a tendrilopposite each and a third leaf without a tendril, intermittent tendrils.
Labrusca, there is a tendril or an inflorescence opposite nearly every leaf, continuous tendrils.
The tendril is one of the organs most used in determining species and varieties of grapes.
Labrusca may bear from three to six inflorescences, each in the place of a tendril opposite the leaf.
Response of a hooked tendril of Passiflora to electric shock.
Response of a straight tendril of Passiflora to electric shock.
Different organs of plant may be employed for the experiment, for example, the tendril of Cucurbita, the pistil of Datura, or the flower bud of Crinum.
Response of a straight tendril of Passiflora 33 11.
In a curved tendril the concave side is less excitable than the convex.
Under unilateral mechanical stimulation a tendrilof Passiflora becomes hooked or coiled, the concave being the excited side.
My eyes, or the sight of the leveloo, answered her; and a sweet bright smile broke through her look of frightened, penitent submission, as she snatched the tendril and snapped it in my hand.
Can you not let me pet and spoil my little flower-bird at least till I have tamed her, and trust me to chastise her as soon as she shall give reason--if I can find a tendril or flower-stem light enough for the purpose?
Taking both the little hands in my left, I laid the tendril on her soft white shoulders, but so gently that in her real distress she did not feel the touch.
In Cobæa scandens the foliar nature of the tendril is shown by the occasional presence of a small leaflet on one of the branches of the tendril, and a similar appearance may frequently be seen in Eccremocarpus scaber.
On the other hand, in the vine, the axial nature of the tendril is revealed by the not infrequent presence of flowers or berries on them, as also in Modecca and some Passifloraceæ.
Sometimes a tendril travels in a much inclined position, and sometimes nearly upright.
To ascertain how often the same tendril would become curved when touched, I kept a plant in my study, which from being cooler than the hot-house was not very favourable for the experiment.
If the tarsus of the tendril comes into contact with a twig, it goes on slowly bending, until the whole foot is carried quite round, and the toes pass on each side of the tarsus and seize it.
When the extreme tip of the tendril of Echinocystis caught hold of a smooth stick, it coiled itself in a few hours (as described at p.
The tendril forms a very acute angle with the projecting extremity of the stem or shoot; and the stiffening always occurred as the tendril approached, and had to pass over the shoot in its circular course.
Secondly, if a twining plant or a tendril gets by any accident into an inclined position, it soon bends upwards, though secluded from the light.
Vries, no doubt is due to the same cause, namely, the rapid growth of a longitudinal band, which travels round the tendriland successively bows each part to the opposite side.
The concave tip of the tendril is very sensitive; after it had become rapidly coiled into a ring owing to a single touch, it straightened itself in 50 m.
I have seen the extremity of a tendril of Passiflora gracilis, after being touched, distinctly bent in 25 seconds, and often in 30 seconds; and so it is with the thicker tendril of Sicyos.
The two branches of the same tendril have independent movements.
For answer, Menotah snatched a long tendrilof bright green from a neighbouring bush.
For a secrettendril of love still clung and quivered about the dead heart.
The gold of the sun was on Arlee's hanging hair and the morning-blue of the sky in her eyes; her face was flushed from sleep and a tiny tendril still clung to the pink cheek on which she had been sleeping.
Somehow that inconsequent small tendril roused in Billy a thrill of absurd tenderness and delight.
So brilliant thy hue With tendril and flow'ret, The grace of the view, What land can o'erpower it?
Leafless stem ortendril growing upwards, bearing seed-covering on its apex.
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