Botany; Geotropism; Plants -- Irritability and movements
(23.) Square of card fixed with shellac to young radicle: after
9 h. very slightly curved from the card; after 24 h. tip curved towards
card. Refixed new square laterally, after 9 h. distinctly curved from
the card, and after 24 h. curved at right angles from the perpendicular
and from the card.
(24.) A rather large oblong piece of card fixed with shellac to apex:
after 24 h. no effect, but the card was found not to be touching the
apex. A small square was now refixed with shellac; after 16 h. slight
deflection from the perpendicular and from the card. After an
additional day the radicle became almost straight.
(25.) Square of card fixed laterally to apex of young radicle; after 9
h. deflection from the perpendicular considerable; after 24 h.
deflection reduced. Refixed a fresh square with shellac: after 24 h.
deflection about 40° from the perpendicular and from the card.
(26.) A very small square of card fixed with shellac to apex of young
radicle: after 9 h. the deflection from the perpendicular and from the
card amounted to nearly a right angle; after 24 h. deflection much
reduced; after an additional 24 h. radicle almost straight.
(27.) Square of card fixed with shellac to apex of young radicle: after
9 h. deflection from the card and from the perpendicular a right angle;
next morning quite straight. Refixed a square laterally with shellac;
after 9 h. a little deflection, which after 24 h. increased to nearly
20° from the perpendicular and from the card.
(28.) Square of card fixed with shellac; after 9 h. some deflection;
next morning the card dropped off; refixed it with shellac; it again
became loose and was refixed; and now on the third trial the radicle
was deflected after 14 h. at right angles from the card.
(29.) A small square of card was first fixed with thick gum-water to
the apex. It produced a slight effect but soon fell off. A similar
square was now affixed laterally with shellac: after 9 h. the radicle
was deflected nearly 45° from the perpendicular and from the card.
After 36 additional hours angle of deflection reduced to about 30°.
(30.) A very small piece, less than 1/20th of an inch square, of thin
tin-foil fixed with shellac to the apex of a young radicle; after 24 h.
no effect. Tin-foil removed, and a small square of sanded card fixed
with shellac; after 9 h. deflection at nearly right angles from the
perpendicular and from the card. Next
morning deflection reduced to about 40° from the perpendicular.
(31.) A splinter of thin glass gummed to apex, after 9 h. no effect,
but it was then found not to be touching the apex of the radicle. Next
morning a square of card was fixed with shellac to it, and after 9 h.
radicle greatly deflected from the card. After two additional days the
deflection had decreased and was only 35° from the perpendicular.
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