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positive heliotropic and negative heliotropic response. This 

 will be seen still more clearly in the following statement, 

 applying to the two extreme cases of radial and of dorsi- 

 ventral organs, the plagiotropic constituting an intermediate 

 link between the two. 



General view of responsive curvatures induced in 

 different organs by unilateral application of light 



1. Radial organs : (a) Positive response \ stimulus localised, 

 the proximal side more excited and concave ; e.g. Sinapis 

 under moderate unilateral light (p. 609). 



(b) Intermediate or neutral response : stimulus internally 

 diffused, causing equal excitation of proximal and distal sides ; 

 the organ takes up a neutral (so-called dia-heliotropic) posi- 

 tion, at right angles to light ; eg. Sinapis under moderately 

 strong unilateral light (p. 609) ; certain tendrils apparently 

 insensitive. 



(c) Negative response : strong stimulus internally diffused, 

 which also induces anisotropy, the distal being then the more 

 excitable ; concavity of the more excited distal ; e.g. seedling of 

 Sinapis, and tendril of Vitis under strong unilateral sunlight 

 (pp. 609, 611). 



2. Dorsi-ventral organs : (a) Positive response : stimulus 

 localised by relative non-conductivity of organ : the more 

 excited proximal side concave ; e.g. positive movement of 

 terminal leaflet of Desmodium ; the diurnal sleep movements 

 of Robinia, Erythrina indica, and Clitoria ternatea (p. 629). 



(b) Intermediate or neutral response : stimulus internally 

 diffused ; upper and lower halves equally excited ; e.g. 

 terminal leaflet of Desmodium, under several hours of 

 vertically acting sunlight (p. 604). 



(c) Negative response : strong stimulus acting from above 

 on highly conducting organ, of which lower half is con- 

 siderably more excitable ; concavity of the more excitable 

 lower half ; e.g. fall of Mimosa leaf under strong illumination 

 from above ; diurnal sleep movements of Oxalis, Biophytutn, 

 -and Averrhoa. 



