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Rh movement is, as stated before, 65 minutes as against 50 minutes in the normal diurnal movement. The increase in the latent period is probably due to the added physiological inertia in reversing the normal rhythm.

Effect of rise of temperature: Experiment 9.—The temperature was raised through 5°C at the second turning point at 1 After a latent period of 50 minutes the plant began to rise steadily (Fig. 9) thus exhibiting once more the reversal of its normal diurnal movement.

From the experiments described above it will be seen that the movement of the Palm, and of other organs growing at an inclination to the vertical, is brought about by the action of temperature in modifying the geotropic curvature. The ever present tendency of geotropic movement is opposed or helped by the physiological reaction induced by rise and fall of temperature respectively. The state of equilibrium is never permanent, but the dynamic balance is being constantly readjusted under changing conditions of the environment.

The movement of the tree furnishes an example of the negative type of THERMONASTIC MOVEMENT. Parallel phenomena are found in floral organs, where, in the well-known instance of Crocus, the perianth leaves open outwards during rise of temperature and close inwards during the onset of cold. Looked at from above, the opening outwards during rise of temperature is a movement downwards, and therefore belongs to the negative type. In such cases the changed rate of growth by variation of temperature is the most important factor in the movement. It may be asked whether all thermonastic movements must necessarily belong to the negative type, where rise of temperature is attended by a movement downwards. I shall in my Paper on "Thermonastic Phenomena" show that there