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The Power of Movement in Plants

by Charles Darwin (1809–1882)

26 chapters, about 164,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS. 1,200 words
2. INTRODUCTION. 2,100 words
3. CHAPTER I. THE CIRCUMNUTATING MOVEMENTS OF SEEDLING PLANTS. 49,700 words
4. A SUMMARY OF CHAPTER. 5,900 words
5. CIRCUMNUTATION OF STOLONS OR RUNNERS. 2,100 words
6. CIRCUMNUTATION OF FLOWER-STEMS. 1,000 words
7. CIRCUMNUTATION OF LEAVES: DICOTYLEDONS. 7,100 words
8. CIRCUMNUTATION OF LEAVES: MONOCOTYLEDONS. 1,200 words
9. CRYPTOGAMS. 900 words
10. CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE CIRCUMNUTATION OF LEAVES. 1,300 words
11. THE CIRCUMNUTATION OF CLIMBING PLANTS. 700 words
12. EPINASTY—HYPONASTY. 9,400 words
13. NYCTITROPIC OR SLEEP MOVEMENTS OF COTYLEDONS. 7,300 words
14. CLASS I. DICOTYLEDONS. 300 words
15. CLASS III. ACOTYLEDONS. 19,300 words
16. GYMNOSPERMS. 100 words
17. MONOCOTYLEDONS. 1,000 words
18. ACOTYLEDONS. 6,700 words
19. CHAPTER VIII. MODIFIED CIRCUMNUTATION: MOVEMENTS EXCITED BY LIGHT. 7,600 words
20. CHAPTER IX. SENSITIVENESS OF PLANTS TO LIGHT: ITS TRANSMITTED EFFECTS. 12,300 words
21. CONCLUDING REMARKS AND SUMMARY OF CHAPTER. 2,100 words
22. CHAPTER X. MODIFIED CIRCUMNUTATION: MOVEMENTS EXCITED BY GRAVITATION. 5,800 words
23. GEOTROPISM. 2,500 words
24. DIAGEOTROPISM. 8,900 words
25. CHAPTER XII. CONCLUDING REMARKS. 7,700 words
26. U. 200 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Ellipse
• Light
• Root (linguistics)

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