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LOCALISED SENSITIVENESS TO GRAVITATION, AND ITS TRANSMITTED EFFECTS. General considerations--Vicia faba, effects of amputating the tips of theradicles--Regeneration of the tips--Effects of a short exposure of the tipsto geotropic action and their subsequent amputation--Effects of amputatingthe tips obliquely--Effects of cauterising the tips--Effects of grease onthe tips--Pisum[page x. ]sativum, tips of radicles cauterised transversely, and on their upper andlower sides--Phaseolus, cauterisation... and grease on the tips--Gossypium--Cucurbita, tips cauterised transversely, and on their upper and lowersides--Zea, tips cauterised--Concluding remarks and summary of chapter--Advantages of the sensibility to geotropism being localised in the tips ofthe radicles... Page 523-545 CHAPTER XII. SUMMARY AND CONCLUDING REMARKS. Nature of the circumnutating movement--History of a germinating seed--Theradicle first protrudes and circumnutates--Its tip highly sensitive--Emergence of the hypocotyl or of the epicotyl from the ground under theform of an arch--Its circumnutation and that of the cotyledons--Theseedling throws up a leaf-bearing stem--The circumnutation of all the partsor organs--Modified circumnutation--Epinasty and hyponasty--Movements ofclimbing plants--Nyctitropic movements--Movements excited by light andgravitation--Localised sensitiveness--Resemblance between the movements ofplants and animals--The tip of the radicle acts like a brain...
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