 It springs up close to the tree on which it intends to fix itself, and the wood of its stem grows by spreading itself like a plastic mould over one side of the trunk of its supporter. It then puts forth, from each side, an arm-like branch, which grows...  Science - Page 1501893Full view - About this book
 | 1864 - 900 pages
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 | Henry Walter Bates - 1863 - 396 pages
...trunk of its supporter. It then puts forth, from each side, an armlike branch, which grows rapidly, and looks as though a stream of sap were flowing and hardening...intervals in mounting upwards, and the victim, when its strangler is full-grown, .becomes tightly elapsed by a number of inflexible rings. These rings gradually... | |
 | 1863 - 520 pages
...of its supporter. It then puts forth, from each side, an arm-like branch, which grows rapidly, and looks as though a stream of sap were flowing and hardening...intervals in mounting upwards, and the victim, when its strangler is full grown, becomes tightly clasped by a number of inflexible rings. These rings gradually... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1863 - 516 pages
...of its supporter. It then puts forth, from each side, an arm-like branch, which grows rapidly, and looks as though a stream of sap were flowing and hardening...intervals in mounting upwards, and the victim, when its strangler is full grown, becomes tightly clasped by a number of inflexible rings. These rings gradually... | |
 | 1863 - 648 pages
...of its supporter. It then puts forth, from each side, an arm-like branch, which grows rapidly, and looks as though a stream of sap were flowing and hardening...blend together. These arms are put forth at somewhat irregular intervals in mounting upwards, and the victim, when its strangler is full grown, becomes... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1865 - 736 pages
...trunk of its supporter. It then puts forth, from each side an arm-like branch, which grows rapidly, and looks as though a stream of sap were flowing and hardening...intervals in mounting upwards, and the victim, when its strangler is full grown becomes tightly clasped by a number of inflexible rings. These rings gradually... | |
 | 1865 - 610 pages
...forth, from each side an arm-like branch, which grows rapidly, and looks as though a stream of sap wcro flowing and hardening as it went. This adheres closely...intervals in mounting upwards, and the victim, when its strangler is full grown becomes tightly clasped by a number of inflexible rings. These rings gradually... | |
 | 1865 - 654 pages
...trunk of its support er. It then puts forth, from each side an armlike branch, which grows rapidly, and looks as though a stream of sap were flowing and hardening...the opposite side and blend together. These arms are pnt forth at somewhat regular intervals in mounting upwards, and the victim, when its strangler is... | |
 | 1866 - 900 pages
...trunk of iu supporter. It then puts forth from each side an arm-like branch, which grows rapidly, and looks as though a stream of sap were flowing and hardening...put forth at somewhat regular intervals in mounting upward, and the victim when its strangler is full grown becomes tightly clasped by a number of inflexible... | |
 | Sara Anna Marsh - 1867 - 338 pages
...trunk of its supporter. It then puts forth from each side an armlike branch, which grows rapidly, and looks as though a stream of sap were flowing and hardening...side and blend together. These arms are put forth at some regular intervals in mounting upwards, and the victim, when its stranger is full grown, becomes... | |
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