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May 4th 1879 8º 15' Phaseolus long radicles with half in water, perpendicularly down.

7 touched with Caustic & 7 without any

These beans had germinated being stuck perpendicularly in it in sawdust & their radicles had grown perpendicularly down parallel to one edge of the bean, but now (May 5th 8th 7º 45' a.m) they have all without exception in their basal parts have diverged from the bean, & therefore Sachs' curvature give a diametrically opposite movement in this case comparative to that of common bean. After this divergence of the basal & therefore whole radicle, the tips of most of those which had not been cauterised, had grown vertically downwards, whereas those with minute black tips had not so grown. — The points of position of the petioles of Coty: with hypocotyl are different in Bean & Phaseolus, & in each case the side of radicle, which one wd have thought wd have been best supplied with nutriment & wd consequently wd have grown quickest & caused curvature seems the less well supplied.—

These observations on Phaseolus, show at least that a movement, viz Sachs curvature is not in the least interfered with by caustic on tip.