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" B. pull exerted by the motile organ is relatively feeble, and in the movement of the very small leaflets of Desmodium gyrans or the telegraph plant, for instance, a weight so small as four-hundredths of a gram is enough to arrest the pulsation of the... "
Researches on irritability of plants - Page 9
by Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose - 1913 - 376 pages
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London ..., Volume 204

Biology - 1914 - 540 pages
...movement of the leaflet of Desmodium, for instance, a weight so small as four-hundredths of a gramme is enough to arrest the pulsating leaflets. When employing...lever, the extremely minute friction offered by the smoked glass surface of the recording plate is sufficient in this case to cause complete cessation...
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Harper's Magazine, Volume 130

Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen - American literature - 1915 - 1064 pages
...feeble, and in the movement of the verysmall leaflets of Desmodium gyrans, or the telegraph-plant, for instance, a weight so small as fourhundredths of a gram is enough to arrest the pulsation of the leaflets. The difficulty could not be removed so long as the writing lever remained...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1915 - 932 pages
...feeble, and in the movement of the very small leaflets of Desmodium gyrans or the telegraph plant, for instance, a weight so small as four-hundredths of a gram is enough to arrest the pulsation of the leaflets. Even in the leaf of Mimosa the friction offered is enough to introduce serious...
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Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the ..., Volume 21

Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1918 - 928 pages
...feeble, and in the movement of the very small leaflets of Desmodium yyrans, or the Telegraph plant, for instance, a weight so small as four-hundredths of a gram is enough to arrest the pulsation of the leaflets. Even in the leaf of Mimosa the friction offered is enough to introduce serious...
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Modern Psychical Phenomena

Hereward Carrington - 1919
...scratch of the needle point on the smoked surface offset, very largely, the response of the plant — " a weight so small as four-hundredths of a gram is enough to arrest the pulsation of the leaflets." Still more sensitive apparatus was therefore necessary, and to obtain this...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1915 - 936 pages
...feeble, and in the movement of the very small leaflets of Desmodium gyrans or the telegraph plant, for instance, a weight so small as four-hundredths of a gram is enough to arrest the pulsation of the leaflets. Even in the leaf of Mimosa the friction offered is enough to introduce serious...
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