Gazania ringens, circumnutation of stem, 208 Genera containing sleeping plants, 320, 321
Geotropism, 5; effect of, on the primary radicle, 196; the reverse of apogeotropism, 512: effect on the tips of radicles, 543
Geranium cinereum, 304 -- Endressii, 304 -- Ibericum, nocturnal movement of cotyledons, 298 -- Richardsoni, 304 -- rotundifolium, nocturnal movement of cotyledon, 304, 312 -- subcaulescens, 304
Germinating seed, history of a, 548
Githago segetum, circumnutation of hypocotyl, 21, 108 --, burying of hypocotyl, 109 --, seedlings feebly illuminated, 124, 128 --, sleep of cotyledon, 302 --, -- leaves 321
Glaucium luteum, circumnutation of young leaves, 228
Gleditschia, sleep of leaves, 368
Glycine hispida, vertical sinking of leaflets, 366
Glycyrrhiza, leaflets depressed at night, 355
Godlewski, Emil, on the turgescence of the cells, 485
Gooseberry, effect of radiation, 284
Gossypium (var. Nankin cotton), circumnutation of hypocotyl, 22 --, movement of cotyledon, 22, 23 --, sleep of leaves, 324 --, arboreum (?), sleep of cotyledons, 303 --, Braziliense, nocturnal movement of leaves, 324 --, sleep of cotyledons, 303 -- herbaceum, sensitiveness of apex of radicle, 168 --, radicles cauterised transversely, 537 -- maritimum, nocturnal movement of leaves, 324
Gravitation, movements excited by, 567
Gray, Asa, on Delphinium nudicaule, 80; on Megarrhiza Californica, 81; on the movements in the fruiting fronds of Aesplenium trichomanes, 257; on the Amphicarpoea monoica, 520; on the Ipomoea Jalappa, 557
Grease, effect of, on radicles and their tips, 182, 185
Gressner, Dr. H., on the cotyledons of Cyclamen Persicum, 46, 77; on hypocotyl of the same, 96
Gymnosperms, 389 [page 581]
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Haberlandt, Dr., on the protuberance on the hypocotyl of Allium, 59; the importance of the arch to seedling plants, 87; sub-a๋rial and subterranean cotyledons, 110, n.; the arched hypocotyl, 554
Haematoxylon Campechianum, nocturnal movement of leaves, 368, 369
Hedera helix, circumnutation of stem, 207
Hedysarum coronarium, nocturnal movements of leaves, 356
Helianthemum prostratum, geotropic movement of flower-heads, 518
Helianthus annuus, circumnutation of hypocotyl, 45 --, arching of hypocotyl, 90 --, nocturnal movement of cotyledons, 305
Heliotropism, 5; uses of, 449; a modified form of circumnutation, 490
Helleborus niger, mode of breaking through the ground, 86
Hensen, Prof., on roots in worm-burrows, 72
Henslow, Rev. G., on the cotyledons of Phalaris Canariensis, 62
Hofmeister, on the curious movement of Spirogyra, 3, 259, n.; of the leaves of Pistia stratiotes, 255; of cotyledons at night, 297; of petals, 414 -- and Batalin on the movements of the cabbage, 229
Hooker, Sir J., on the effect of light on the pitchers of Sarracenia, 450
Hypocotyl, 5; manner of breaking through the ground, 77; emerges under the form of an arch, 553
Hypocotyls and Epicotyls, circumnutation and other movements when arched, 98; power of straightening themselves, 100; rupture of the seed-coats, 102-106; illustration of, 106; circumnutation when erect, 107; when in dark, 108
Hyponasty, 6, 267
I. Iberis umbellata, movement of stem, 202.
Illumination, effect of, on the sleep of leaves, 398
Imatophyllum vel Clivia (sp.?), movement of leaves, 255
Indigofera tinctoria, leaflets depressed at night, 354
Inheritance in plants, 407, 491
Insectivorous and climbing plants not heliotropic, 450; influence of light on, 488
Ipomoea bona nox, arching of hypocotyl, 90 --, nocturnal position of cotyledons, 306, 312 -- coerulea vel Pharbitis nil, circumnutation of seedlings, 47 --, movement of cotyledons, 47-49, 109 --, nocturnal movements of cotyledons, 305 --, sleep of leaves, 386 --, sensitiveness to light, 451 --, the hypocotyledonous stems heliotropic, 453 -- coccinea, position of cotyledons at night, 306, 312 -- leptophylla, mode of breaking through the ground, 83, 84 --, arching of the petioles of the cotyledons, 90 --, difference in sensitiveness to gravitation in different parts, 509 --, extraordinary manner of germination, 557 [page 582]
IPOMOEA--LOTUS
Ipomoea pandurata, manner of germination, 84, 557 -- purpurea (vel Pharbitis hispida), nocturnal movement of cotyledons, 305, 312 --, sleep of leaves, 386 --, sensitiveness to light, 451 --, the hypocotyledonous stems heliotropic, 453
Iris pseudo-acorus, circumnutation of leaves, 253
Irmisch, on cotyledons of Ranunculus Ficaria, 96
Ivy, its stems heliotropic, 451
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