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CIRCUMNUTATION OF STEMS. 



CHAP. IV. 



31 h. 40 m., and shows that it circumnutated. The bush 

 15 inches in height. 



Fig. 8.1. 



Aloysia citrlodora : circumnutation of stem, traced from 8.20 A.M. on March 

 22nd to 4 P.M. on 23rd. Plant kept in darkness. Movement magnified 

 about 40 times. 



(16.) Verbena melindres (?) (a scarlet-flowered herbaceous var.) 

 (Verbenaceae). A shoot 8 inches in height had been laid hori- 

 zontally, for the sake of observing its apogeotropism, and the 

 terminal portion had grown vertically upwards for a length of 

 li inches. A glass filament, with a bead at the end, was fixed 



Fig. 82 . 



Verbena melindres: circumnutation of stem in darkness, traced on vertical 

 glass, from 5.30 P.M. on June 5th to 11 A.M. June 7th. Movement of 

 bead magnified 9 times. 



upright to the tip, and its movements were traced during 

 41 h. 30 m. on a vertical glass (Fig. 82). Under these circum- 

 stances the lateral movements were chiefly shown ; but as the 

 lines from side to side are not on the same level, the shoot 



