RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1880].04.14. Fig 91. Radicles of beans. CUL-DAR209.4.14. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2022. RN1

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2/3 Same scale E placed on level ─ near together & will then go have to go longitudinally in my Page, transversely to stand beneath the other three

[Annotated figures] dotted line attend to this dotted & thick line in these 3 figures]

(Fig 91)

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Radicles of Beans, with tips touched with caustic, not acted on by Geotropism

[Movement in plants, p. 531: "A, B, C (Fig. 196), were still horizontal, whilst the three control specimens had become within 8 h. slightly geotropic, and strongly so (D, E, F) in 23 h. 30 m. A dot had been made on all six radicles at 10 mm. from their tips, when first placed horizontally. After the 23 h. 30 m. this terminal part, originally 10 mm. in length, had increased in the cauterised specimens to a mean length of 17.3 mm., and to 15.7 mm. in the control radicles, as shown in the figures by the unbroken transverse line; the dotted line being at 10 mm. from the apex."]

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N. B. The dotted line shows when a marked was placed at first at 10 mm from apex, & after 23h 30m it the mark stood when the unbroken line now is, showing amt of growth  of radicle in each case in the course of the 23h 30m.─


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