The Power of Movement in Plants

by Charles Darwin

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Contents

1. Detailed Table of Contents
2. Introduction
3. Chapter I. The Circumnutating Movements of Seedling Plants
4. Chapter II. General Considerations on the Movements and Growth of Seedling Plants
5. Chapter III. Sensitiveness of the Apex of the Radicle to Contact and to Other Irritants
6. Sensitiveness of the Tip of the Radicle to Moist Air
7. A Summary of Chapter
8. Chapter IV. The Circumnutating Movements of the Several Parts of Mature Plants
9. Circumnutation of Stolons or Runners
10. Circumnutation of Flower-Stems
11. Circumnutation of Leaves: Dicotyledons
12. Circumnutation of Leaves: Monocotyledons
13. Cryptogams
14. Concluding Remarks on the Circumnutation of Leaves
15. Chapter V. Modified Circumnutation: Climbing Plants; Epinastic and Hyponastic Movements
16. The Circumnutation of Climbing Plants
17. Epinasty—Hyponasty
18. Chapter VI. Modified Circumnutation: Sleep or Nyctitropic Movements, Their Use: Sleep of Cotyledons
19. Nyctitropic or Sleep Movements of Cotyledons
20. Chapter VII. Modified Circumnutation: Nyctitropic or Sleep Movements of Leaves
21. Gymnosperms
22. Monocotyledons
23. Acotyledons
24. Chapter VIII. Modified Circumnutation: Movements Excited by Light
25. Chapter IX. Sensitiveness of Plants to Light: Its Transmitted Effects
26. Localised Sensitiveness to Light, and Its Transmitted Effects
27. Concluding Remarks and Summary of Chapter
28. Chapter X. Modified Circumnutation: Movements Excited by Gravitation
29. Geotropism
30. Diageotropism
31. Chapter XI. Localised Sensitiveness to Gravitation, and Its Transmitted Effects
32. Chapter XII. Concluding Remarks

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