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Robin-run-the-Hedge--Bramble bushes--Climbing roses--Spiny, wiry stems of smilax--The weak young stem of a liane--The way in which stems revolve--The hop and its little harpoons--A climbing palm--Rapidity of turners--The effect of American life on them--Living bridges--Rope bridges in India--The common stitchwort--Tendrils--Their behaviour when stroked or tickled--Their sensibility--Their grasping power--The quickness with which they curve and their sense of weight--Charles Darwin--Reasonableness of plants--Corkscrew spirals--The pads of the Virginian Creeper--The ivy--Does it do harm?--Embracing roots--Tree ivy 313