 This movement, moreover, combined with the sensitiveness of the tip to contact, can hardly fail to be of the highest importance ; for as the tip is always endeavouring to bend to all sides it will press on all sides, and will thus be able to discriminate...  The Power of Movement in Plants - Page 197by Charles Robert Darwin - 1897 - 592 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Lincoln Goodale - Botany - 1885 - 572 pages
...into contact with different sides of minute crevices in the soil, 1 and " as it is always endeavoring to bend to all sides, it will press on all sides,...discriminate between the harder and softer adjoining surfaces . . . consequently it will tend to bend from the harder soil, and will thus follow the lines of least... | |
 | Asa Gray - Botany - 1885 - 756 pages
...into contact with different sides of minute crevices in the soil, 1 and " as it is always endeavoring to bend to all sides, it will press on all sides,...discriminate between the harder and softer adjoining surfaces . . . consequently it will tend to bend from the harder soil, and will thus follow the lines of least... | |
 | Asa Gray - Botanists - 1889 - 418 pages
...circumuutation, in which, endeavoring to bend in all directions, its tip " will press on all sides, and thus be able to discriminate between the harder and softer adjoining surfaces, . . . and to bend from the harder soil and follow the lines of the least resistance," so modifying... | |
 | Asa Gray - Botanists - 1889 - 420 pages
...circunmutation, in which, endeavoring to bend in all directions, its tip " will press on all sides, and thus be able to discriminate between the harder and softer adjoining surfaces, . . . and to bend from the harder soil and follow the lines of the least resistance," so modifying... | |
 | George Lincoln Goodale - Botany - 1890 - 572 pages
...into contact with different sides of minute crevices in the soil, 1 and " as it is always endeavoring: to bend to all sides, it will press on all sides,...able to discriminate between the harder and softer ad]oining surfaces . . . conseqnently it will tend to bend from the harder soil, and will thus follow... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 618 pages
...materially when they happen to break obliquely into cracks, or into burrows made by earth-worms or larv¿. This movement, moreover, combined with the sensitiveness...discriminate between the harder and softer adjoining surfhces, in the same manner as it discriminated between the attached squares of card-like and thin... | |
 | THOMAS G GENTRY - 1900 - 566 pages
...larvae. Moreover, combined as it is with the sensitiveness of the tip of the radicle to contact, it can hardly fail to be of the highest importance, for as the tip is always endeavoring to bend to all sides, it will press on all sides, and will thus be able to discriminate... | |
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