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The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants

by Charles Darwin (1809–1882)

10 chapters, about 43,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. PREFACE 400 words
2. CHAPTER I. TWINING PLANTS. 300 words
3. TWINING PLANTS. 4,100 words
4. (MONOCOTYLEDONS.) 200 words
5. (DICOTYLEDONS.) 3,600 words
6. CHAPTER II. LEAF-CLIMBERS. 8,100 words
7. CHAPTER III. TENDRIL-BEARERS. 9,200 words
8. CHAPTER IV. TENDRIL-BEARERS—(_continued_). 12,200 words
9. CHAPTER V. HOOK AND ROOT-CLIMBERS.—CONCLUDING REMARKS. 5,100 words
10. FOOTNOTES. 300 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Root (linguistics)

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