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INDEX.
ABIES--AMPHICARPOEA.
A.
Abies communis, effect of killing or injuring the leading shoot, 187
-- pectinata, effect of killing or injuring the leading shoot, 187
--, affected by Aecidium elatinum, 188
Abronia umbellata, its single, developed cotyledon, 78
--, rudimentary cotyledon, 95
--, rupture of the seed coats, 105
Abutilon Darwinii, sleep of leaves and not of cotyledons, 314
--, nocturnal movement of leaves, 323
Acacia Farnesiana, state of plant when awake and asleep, 381, 382
--, appearance at night, 395
--, nyctitropic movements of pinnae, 402
--, the axes of the ellipses, 404
-- lophantha, character of first leaf, 415
-- retinoides, circumnutation of young phyllode, 236
Acanthosicyos horrida, nocturnal movement of cotyledon 304
Acanthus candelabrum, inequality in the two first leaves, 79
--, petioles not arched, 553
-- latifolius, variability in first leaves 79
-- mollis, seedling, manner of breaking through the ground, 78, 79
--, circumnutation of young leaf, 249, 269
-- spinosus, 79
--, movement of leaves, 249
Adenanthera pavonia, nyctitropic movements of leaflets, 374
Aecidium elatinum, effect on the lateral branches of the silver fir, 188
Aesculus hippocastanum, movements of radicle, 28, 29
--, sensitiveness of apex of radicle, 172-174
Albizzia lophantha, nyctitropic movements of leaflets, 383
--, of pinnae, 402
Allium cepa, conical protuberance on arched cotyledon, 59
--, circumnutation of basal half of arched cotyledon, 60
--, mode of breaking through ground, 87
--, straightening process, 101
-- porrum, movements of flower-stems, 226
Alopecurus pratensis, joints affected by apogeotropism, 503
Aloysia citriodora, circumnutation of stem, 210
Amaranthus, sleep of leaves, 387
-- caudatus, nocturnal movement of cotyledons, 307
Amorpha fruticosa, sleep of leaflets, 354
Ampelopsis tricuspidata, hyponastic movement of hooked tips, 272-275
Amphicarpoea monoica, circumnutation and nyctitropic movements of leaves,
365
--, effect of sunshine on leaflets, 445
--, geotropic movements of, 520
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ANODA--BRASSICA
Anoda Wrightii, sleep of cotyledons, 302, 312
--, of leaves, 324
--, downward movement of cotyledons, 444
Apheliotropism, or negative heliotropism, 5, 419, 432
Apios graveolens, heliotropic movements of hypocotyl, 422-424
-- tuberosa, vertical sinking of leaflets at night, 368
Apium graveolens, sleep of cotyledons, 305
--, petroselinum, sleep of cotyledons, 304
Apogeotropic movements effected by joints or pulvini, 502
Apogeotropism, 5, 494; retarded by heliotropism, 501; concluding remarks
on, 507
Arachis hypogoea, circumnutation of gynophore, 225
--, effects of radiation on leaves, 289, 296
--, movements of leaves, 357
-- rate of movement, 404
--, circumnutation of vertically dependent young gynophores, 519
--, downward movement of the same, 519
Arching of various organs, importance of, to seedling plants, 87, 88;
emergence of hypocotyls or epicotyls in the form of an, 553
Asparagus officinalis, circumnutation of plumules, 60-62.
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