 By continually moving his head from side to side, or circumnutating, he will feel any stone or other obstacle, as well as any difference in the hardness of the soil, and he will turn from that side ; if the earth is damper on one than on the other side,...  The Power of Movement in Plants - Page 200by Charles Darwin - 1888 - 592 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - Botany - 1881 - 484 pages
...side to side, or circumnutating, he will feel any stone or other obstacle, as well as any difference in the hardness of the soil, and he will turn from...recover his downward course, and to burrow to a greater depth."1 From seedlings we are led to mature plants, and here again we encounter systematic rotatory... | |
 | 1882 - 880 pages
...side to side, orcircumnutating, he will feel any stone or other obstacle, as well as any difference in the hardness of the soil, and he will turn from...the other side, he will turn thitherward as a better hunting ground. Nevertheless, after each interruption, guided by a sense of gravity, he will be able... | |
 | George Lincoln Goodale - Botany - 1885 - 574 pages
...side to side, or circum nutating, he will feel any utonc or other obstacle, as well as any difference in the hardness of the soil, and he will turn from...his downward course and to burrow to a greater depth " (p. 199). " We believe that there is no structure in plants more wonderful, ns far as its functions... | |
 | Maxwell Tylden Masters - Agriculture - 1883 - 170 pages
...side to side, or circumnutating, he will feel any stone or other obstacle, as well as any difference in the hardness of the soil, and he will turn from...damper on one than on the other side, he will turn thither as to better hunting ground. Nevertheless, after each interruption, guided by the sense of... | |
 | George Lincoln Goodale - Phanerogams - 1885 - 572 pages
...side to side, or circumnutating, he will feel any stone or other obstacle, as well as any difference in the hardness of the soil, and he will turn from...his downward course and to burrow to a greater depth " (p. 199). "We believe that there is no structure in plants more wonderful, as far as its functions... | |
 | George Lincoln Goodale - Botany - 1885 - 594 pages
...circumnutating, he will feel any .-.tone or other obstacle, as well as any difference in the liardnesj of the soil, and he will turn from that side ; if...the other side, he will turn thitherward as a better bunting-ground. Nevertheless, after each interruption, guided by the sense of gravity, he will be able... | |
 | Maxwell Tylden Masters - Plant physiology - 1885 - 144 pages
...from side to side, or circumnutating, he feels any stone or other obstacle, as well as any difference in the hardness of the soil, and he will turn from...damper on one than on the other side, he will turn thither as to better hunting ground. Nevertheless, after each interruption, guided by the sense of... | |
 | George Lincoln Goodale - Botany - 1885 - 572 pages
...side to side, or circunmutatmg, he will feel any atone or other obstacle, as well as any difference in the hardness of the soil, and he will turn from that side ; if the earth is damper on ons than on the other side, he will turn thitherward as a better hunting-ground. Nevertheless, after... | |
 | George Lincoln Goodale - Botany - 1885 - 572 pages
...any atone or other obstacle, as well as any difference in the hardness of the soil, and he will turu- from that side ; if the earth is damper on one than on the other side, he will turu thitherward as a better hunting-ground. Nevertheless, after each interruption, guided by the sense... | |
 | William James Beal - Forage plants - 1887 - 484 pages
...the ground. By continually moving from side to side, he will find the easist place for descending. If the earth is damper on one than on the other side, he will turn thither as to better hunting ground. The root, doubtless, can only distinguish water which touches... | |
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