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PHYSIOLOGY 



Similarly the increase in forty hours of twelve 3.5 mm. spaces of a stem of 

 Phaseolus; 



1 IT III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII 



2 2.5 4-5 6 -5 5-5 3-o 1.8 1.0 i.o 0.5 0.5 0.5 



Inspection of these records shows that the two younger millimeters of the root 

 and the seven older are growing less rapidly than the third ; in the stem the four- 

 teenth to the seventeenth millimeters (space IV) are growing most rapidly, and 

 beyond this the older a division is the more slowly'it grows. 



Growing regions. Comparison of the total length of root and stem 

 still growing appreciably shows a striking difference. About i 



cm. 



70 



70 



60 



50 



40 



30 



20 





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1 2 34 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 14 15 16 



FIG. 663. Grand curve of growth (solid line): the first day of the observation was 

 evidently after fairly rapid growth had begun ; it attained a maximum on the fifth day, 

 with an increment of 72 mm.; 'thence the rate falls off rapidly, and on the sixteenth oay 

 is only 18 mm.; growth rate magnified 10 times. The temperature curve (broken line) 

 for the same days runs between 71 and 77 F. From data by SPOEHR. 



of the root and more than 4 cm. of the stem is shown to be growing 

 by the record above. In general the total elongating portion of a root 

 scarcely exceeds this; but in many stems 10-20 cm. are found elon- 

 gating, and in twining plants 40-60 or even 80 cm. may be growing. 



