CONTENTS 



tropic curvature induced by stimulation of the tips of root and shoot — 

 Intermediate phases between positive and negative heliotropic response : 

 {a) neutralisation by transverse transmission ; {6) neutralisation by 

 transverse transmission, with multiple response — Localised sensitiveness 

 to light and transmission of excitatory effect — Negative heliotropism of 

 a radial organ — Gradual transition from positive to negative, through 

 intermediate phase of neutrality — Apparent heliotropic insensitiveness of 

 certain tendrils — Negative heliotropism of tendril of V///s . . . 597 



CHAPTER XLIV 



EFFECT OF INVISIBLE RADIATION AND EMANATIONS 



Effect of temperature and its variations — Demonstration of fundamental 

 effect of thermal radiation on growth — Response to successive uniform 

 stimuli of thermal radiation — Effect of continuous unilateral stimulation 

 — Effect of electrical waves on growth— Response of Mimosa to electric 

 radiation — Action of high frequency Tesla current .... 614 



CHAPTER XLV 



ON PHOTONASTIC PHENOMENA AND ON DIURNAL SLEEP 



Photonasty and para-heliotropism — Response of Tropieolttm iiiajits — Re- 

 sponses of plagiotropic stems : {a) Mimosa — {b) Ipomaa — (c) Cuciirbiia — 

 Daily periodic movements of plagiotropic stems — Responsive movements 

 of pulvinated organs — Pulvinated organs showing positive heliotropic 

 movement: {a) Responseof terminal leaflet of Z)fj-w(7<j?/«w — {b) Response 

 of leaflet of Robinia — (r) Responsive movements of leaflets of Eiyt/irina 

 indica and Cliioria ternatea — The negative heliotropic type of response : 

 («) Response of pulvinus of Mimosa — (/') Diurnal sleep of OxaJis — {c) 

 Diurnal sleep of Biophyttim — Directive versus non-directive action of 

 light — General view of responsive curvatures induced in different organs 

 by unilateral application of light 621 



CHAPTER XLVI 



ON DIA-HELIOTROPISM AND DIA-GEOTROPISM 



Difficulty of distinguishing between effect of light and other reactions — 

 Theories of Erank and De Vries — Subsidiary factors: (i) Epinasty and 

 hyponasty ; (2) Effect of gravity; (3) Effect of suctional activity and 

 of turgescence ; (4) Modification of eftect by characteristic limits of 

 flexibility — Discrimination of the part played by heliotropism in the 

 movement of the leaf — Proof of absence of any specific dia-heliotropic 

 tendency in leaves — The lamina not the perceptive organ— Principal 

 types of the response of leaves to stimulus of light — Positive type of 

 response: mango leaf — Negative type of response : \tz.i oi Artocarpus . 640 



