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R. R. SNOW has conferred a real benefit on botanists by reviewing Ricca's important experimental investigation on the conduction of stimuli in Mimosa, and by discussing the evidence for the conclusions of that Italian investigator which originated such an unexpectedly simple theory for the conduction of stimuli in plants. In the paper before us Mr. Snow describes how the experiments which Ricca performed on the conduction in the stem of Mimosa spegazzinii were repeated on?. pudica, and states that Ricca's explanation of the conduction, as depending on the transference of a hormone in the transpiration-current in the wood of the stem, has been tested and may be accepted as correct.
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DIXON, H. Transmission of Stimuli in Plants. Nature 114, 626 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114626a0
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