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CHAPTER IX.
SENSITIVENESS OF PLANTS TO LIGHT: ITS TRANSMITTED EFFECTS.
Uses of heliotropism--Insectivorous and climbing plants not heliotropic--
Same organ heliotropic at one age and not at another--Extraordinary
sensitiveness of some plants to light--The effects
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of light do not correspond with its intensity--Effects of previous
illumination--Time required for the action of light--After-effects of
light--Apogeotropism acts as soon as light fails--Accuracy with which
plants bend to the light--This dependent on the illumination of one whole
side of the part--Localised sensitiveness to light and its transmitted
effects--Cotyledons of Phalaris, manner of bending--Results of the
exclusion of light from their tips--Effects transmitted beneath the surface
of the ground--Lateral illumination of the tip determines the direction of
the curvature of the base--Cotyledons of Avena, curvature of basal part due
to the illumination of upper part--Similar results with the hypocotyls of
Brassica and Beta--Radicles of Sinapis apheliotropic, due to the
sensitiveness of their tips--Concluding remarks and summary of chapter--
Means by which circumnutation has been converted into heliotropism or
apheliotropism.
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