no Balls. — Fallacies of Electrical Response in Cotton Plants . 
Table II. 
Fatigue. 
H ypocotyls of two similar seedlings : 
Resistance : A. 130,000; C. 160,000. 
Response'. A. 134, 62 : 41, 34 : 34, 24 : 13, 6 : -16, -23 : &c. 
C. 88, 54 : 39, 42 : 35, 28 : 30, 15 : -9, -21 : &c. 
(Mean response : A. 37-7 ; C. 36.1.) 
Direction of deflexion reversed as fatigue increased, up to about —40, and then died down 
to zero after about fifty more shocks. 
Table III. 
Damage by root-asphyxiation : 
A. Seedlings from pot immersed in water. 
C. Control. 
Values of resistance and mean response ( b ) from A expressed as percentage of values from C. 
Root. 
After 24 hours. 
After 54 hours. 
After 100 hours. 
Hypocotyl junction 
li 
20 
200 
38 
76 
50 
90 
Hypocotyl 
r* 
100 
90 
37 
22 
43 
180 
First internode j 
n 
— 
70 
100 
5° 
210 
Cotyledons 1 
r* 

5 
150 
? 
100 
The first repetition of this experiment gave, e. g. for first internode 
after 100 hours, the following result: 
R *= 350,000 in both A and C. 
Response : A. 74, 58 : 45, 32. 
C. 79> 54 '• 54) 38 - 
TABLE IV. 
Desiccation. 
A. Plants had wilted, and died two days later. 
C. Control. 
Resistance : 400,000 in both. 
Response : First internode. A. 47, 36 : 35, 31. 
C. 69, 62 : 51, 45. 
Hypocotyl. A. 21, 30. 
C. 47) 75- 
1 Cotyledons shed in following week. 
