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INDEX.
ABIES--AMPHICARPOEA.
A.
Abies communis, effect of killing or injuring the leading shoot, 187 -- pectinata, effect of killing or injuring the leading shoot, 187 --, affected by Aecidium elatinum, 188
Abronia umbellata, its single, developed cotyledon, 78 --, rudimentary cotyledon, 95 --, rupture of the seed coats, 105
Abutilon Darwinii, sleep of leaves and not of cotyledons, 314 --, nocturnal movement of leaves, 323
Acacia Farnesiana, state of plant when awake and asleep, 381, 382 --, appearance at night, 395 --, nyctitropic movements of pinnae, 402 --, the axes of the ellipses, 404 -- lophantha, character of first leaf, 415 -- retinoides, circumnutation of young phyllode, 236
Acanthosicyos horrida, nocturnal movement of cotyledon 304
Acanthus candelabrum, inequality in the two first leaves, 79 --, petioles not arched, 553 -- latifolius, variability in first leaves 79 -- mollis, seedling, manner of breaking through the ground, 78, 79 --, circumnutation of young leaf, 249, 269 -- spinosus, 79 --, movement of leaves, 249
Adenanthera pavonia, nyctitropic movements of leaflets, 374
Aecidium elatinum, effect on the lateral branches of the silver fir, 188
Aesculus hippocastanum, movements of radicle, 28, 29 --, sensitiveness of apex of radicle, 172-174
Albizzia lophantha, nyctitropic movements of leaflets, 383 --, of pinnae, 402
Allium cepa, conical protuberance on arched cotyledon, 59 --, circumnutation of basal half of arched cotyledon, 60 --, mode of breaking through ground, 87 --, straightening process, 101 -- porrum, movements of flower-stems, 226
Alopecurus pratensis, joints affected by apogeotropism, 503
Aloysia citriodora, circumnutation of stem, 210
Amaranthus, sleep of leaves, 387 -- caudatus, nocturnal movement of cotyledons, 307
Amorpha fruticosa, sleep of leaflets, 354
Ampelopsis tricuspidata, hyponastic movement of hooked tips, 272-275
Amphicarpoea monoica, circumnutation and nyctitropic movements of leaves, 365 --, effect of sunshine on leaflets, 445 --, geotropic movements of, 520 [page 575]
ANODA--BRASSICA
Anoda Wrightii, sleep of cotyledons, 302, 312 --, of leaves, 324 --, downward movement of cotyledons, 444
Apheliotropism, or negative heliotropism, 5, 419, 432
Apios graveolens, heliotropic movements of hypocotyl, 422-424 -- tuberosa, vertical sinking of leaflets at night, 368
Apium graveolens, sleep of cotyledons, 305 --, petroselinum, sleep of cotyledons, 304
Apogeotropic movements effected by joints or pulvini, 502
Apogeotropism, 5, 494; retarded by heliotropism, 501; concluding remarks on, 507
Arachis hypogoea, circumnutation of gynophore, 225 --, effects of radiation on leaves, 289, 296 --, movements of leaves, 357 -- rate of movement, 404 --, circumnutation of vertically dependent young gynophores, 519 --, downward movement of the same, 519
Arching of various organs, importance of, to seedling plants, 87, 88; emergence of hypocotyls or epicotyls in the form of an, 553
Asparagus officinalis, circumnutation of plumules, 60-62. --, effect of lateral light, 484
Asplenium trichomanes, movement in the fruiting fronds, 257, n.
Astragalus uliginosus, movement of leaflets, 355
Avena sativa, movement of cotyledons, 65, 66. --, sensitiveness of tip of radicle to moist air, 183 --, heliotropic movement and circumnutation of cotyledon, 421, 422 --, sensitiveness of cotyledon to a lateral light, 477 --, young sheath-like cotyledons strongly apogeotropic, 499
Avena sativa, movements of oldish cotyledons, 499, 500
Averrhoa bilimbi, leaf asleep, 330 --, angular movements when going to sleep, 331-335 --, leaflets exposed to bright sunshine, 447
Azalea Indica, circumnutation of stem, 208
B.
Bary, de, on the effect of the Aecidium on the silver fir, 188
Batalin, Prof., on the nyctitropic movements of leaves, 283; on the sleep of leaves of Sida napoea, 322; on Polygonum aviculare, 387; on the effect of sunshine on leaflets of Oxalis acetosella, 447
Bauhinia, nyctitropic movements, 373 --, movements of petioles of young seedlings, 401 --, appearance of young plants at night, 402
Beta vulgaris, circumnutation of hypocotyl of seedlings, 52 --, movements of cotyledons, 52, 53 --, effect of light, 124 --, nocturnal movement of cotyledons, 307 --, heliotropic movements of, 420 --, transmitted effect of light on hypocotyl, 482 --, apogeotropic movement of hypocotyl, 496
Bignonia capreolata, apheliotropic movement of tendrils, 432, 450
Bouché on Melaleuca ericaefolia, 383
Brassica napus, circumnutation of flower-stems, 226
Brassica oleracea, circumnutation of seedling, 10 --, of radicle, 11 --, geotropic movement of radicle, 11 [page 576]
Brassica oleracea, movement of buried and arched hypocotyl, 13, 14, 15 --, conjoint circumnutation of hypocotyl and cotyledons, 16, 17, 18 --, of hypocotyl in darkness, 19 --, of a cotyledon with hypocotyl secured to a stick, 19, 20 --, rate of movement, 20 --, ellipses described by hypocotyls when erect, 105 --, movements of cotyledons, 115 --, -- of stem, 202 --, -- of leaves at night, 229, 230 --, sleep of cotyledons, 301 --, circumnutation of hypocotyl of seedling plant, 425 --, heliotropic movement and circumnutation of hypocotyls, 426 --, effect of lateral light on hypocotyls, 479-482 --, apogeotropic movement of hypocotyls, 500, 501
Brassica rapa, movements of leaves, 230
Brongniart, A., on the sleep of Strephium floribundum, 391
Bruce, Dr., on the sleep of leaves in Averrhoa, 330
Bryophyllum (vel Calanchoe) calycinum, movement of leaves, 237
C.