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Verbena herbaceous scarlet-flowered Var

Apogeotropism.

Stem 8 inches high, quite straight, pot laid horizontally, kept in darkness— traced on vertical glass [sketch]

glass Jun 3d Pot laid down at 9° 50' a.m by 10° 55' had fallen a little: by 12° 10' had risen considerably & by 4° 45' 7° had risen so much that cd no longer be traced on vertical glass.

At end of observation ie after 2 or 3 days the terminal l 1 1/2 inch of this shoot & of all others found bent up rectangularly; So strongly & quickly geotropic: the long line traced was almost absolutely straight. At 5° P.m. A mark placed behind, & stem from some unknown cause bent to one side, but still continued rising & now zig-zagged somewhat. On next day June 4th & following days regularly circumnutated; & movements are was is carefully described & traced under head of Circumnutation of stem of plants, not seedlings.

It is clear that for a time apogeotropism Conquered circumnutation — (no tracing given)