Botany; Geotropism; Plants -- Irritability and movements
The circumnutating movements of the several parts or organs of a
considerable number of seedling plants have been described in the last
chapter. A list is here appended of the Families, Cohorts, Sub-classes,
etc., to which they belong, arranged and numbered according to the
classification adopted by Hooker.[1] Any one who will consider this
list will see that the young plants selected for observation, fairly
represent the whole vegetable series excepting the lowest cryptogams,
and the movements of some of the latter when mature will hereafter be
described. As all the seedlings which were observed, including
Conifers, Cycads and Ferns, which belong to the most ancient
types amongst plants, were continually circumnutating, we may infer
that this kind of movement is common to every seedling species.
[1] As given in the ‘General System of Botany,’ by Le Maout and
Decaisne, 1873.
SUB-KINGDOM I.—Phaenogamous Plants.
Class I.—DICOTYLEDONS.
Sub-class I.—Angiosperms. Family. Cohort. 14. Cruciferae. II.
PARIETALES. 26. Caryophylleae. IV. CARYOPHYLLALES. 36. Malvaceae. VI
MALVALES. 41. Oxalideae. VII. GERANIALES. 49. Tropaeoleae. DITTO 52.
Aurantiaceae. DITTO 70. Hippocastaneae. X. SAPINDALES. 75. Leguminosae.
XI. ROSALES. 106. Cucurbitaceæ. XII. PASSIFLORALES. 109. Cacteæ. XIV.
FICOIDALES. 122. Compositæ. XVII. ASTRALES. 135. Primulaceae. XX.
PRIMULALES. 145. Asclepiadeae. XXII. GENTIANALES. 151. Convolvulaceae.
XXIII. POLEMONIALES. 154. Boragineae. DITTO 156. Nolaneae. DITTO 157.
Solaneae. XXIV. SOLANALES. 181. Chenopodieae. XXVII. CHENOPODIALES.
202. Euphorbiaceae. XXXII. EUPHORBIALES. 211. Cupuliferae. XXXVI.
QUERNALES. 212. Corylaceae. DITTO
Sub-class II.—Gymnosperms. 223. Coniferæ. 224. Cycadeæ.
Class II.—MONOCOTYLEDONS. 2. Cannaceae. II. AMOMALES. 34. Liliaceae.
XI. LILIALES. 41. Asparageae. DITTO 55. Gramineæ. XV. GLUMALES.
SUB-KINGDOM II.—Cryptogamic Plants.
1. Filices. I. FILICALES. 6. Lycopodiaceæ. DITTO
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