Botany; Geotropism; Plants -- Irritability and movements
(32.) Small square of sanded card, attached with thick gum-water
laterally to the apex of a long straight radicle: after 9 h. greatly
deflected from the perpendicular and from the card. Curvature extended
for a length of .22 of an inch from the apex. After 3 additional hours
terminal portion deflected at right angles from the perpendicular. Next
morning the curved portion was .36 in length.
(33.) Square of card gummed to apex: after 15 h. deflected at nearly
90° from the perpendicular and from the card.
(34.) Small oblong of sanded card gummed to apex: after 15 h. deflected
90° from the perpendicular and from the card: in the course of the
three following days the terminal portion became much contorted and
ultimately coiled into a helix.
(35.) Square of card gummed to apex: after 9 h. deflected from card:
after 24 h. from time of attachment greatly deflected obliquely and
partly in opposition to Sachs’ curvature.
(36.) Small piece of card, rather less than 1/20th of an inch square,
gummed to apex: in 9 h. considerably deflected from card and in
opposition to Sachs’ curvature; after 24 h. greatly deflected in the
same direction. After an additional day the extreme tip was curved
towards the card.
(37.) Square of card, gummed to apex in front, caused after 8 h. 30 m.
hardly any effect; refixed fresh square laterally, after 15 h.
deflected almost 90° from the perpendicular and from the card. After 2
additional days deflection much reduced.
(38.) Square of card gummed to apex: after 9 h. much deflection, which
after 24 h. from time of fixing increased to nearly 90°. After an
additional day terminal portion was curled into a loop, and on the
following day into a helix.
(39.) Small oblong piece of card gummed to apex, nearly in front, but a
little to one side; in 9 h. slightly deflected in the direction of
Sachs’ curvature, but rather obliquely, and to side opposite to card.
Next day more curved in the same direction, and after 2 additional days
coiled into a ring.
(40.) Square of card gummed to apex: after 9 h. slightly curved from
card; next morning radicle straight, and apex had grown beyond the
card. Refixed another square laterally with shellac; in 9 h. deflected
laterally, but also in the direction of Sachs’ curvature. After 2
additional days’ curvature considerably increased in the same
direction.
(41.) Little square of tin-foil fixed with gum to one side of apex of a
young and short radicle: after 15 h. no effect, but tin-foil had become
displaced. A little square of card was now gummed to one side of apex,
which after 8 h. 40 m. was slightly deflected; in 24 h. from the time
of attachment deflected at 90° from the perpendicular and from the
card; after 9 additional hours became hooked, with the apex pointing to
the zenith. In 3 days from the time of attachment the terminal portion
of the radicle formed a ring or circle.
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