The mechanistic conception of life : biological essays (1912)
Loeb, Jacques, 1859-1924 · Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press · leaf 99
ertically upward andproduced the typicallittle branches bearingpolyps. If we brought the stem into an obhque position (Fig. 26),with the apex a upward, from every element of the main stemnew stems and roots originated, but with this difference, thatstems always originated from the upper side of an… … Fig. 26.—Diagrammatic regeneration in apiece o b of a stem of Antennularia put ob-liquely into the water. On the upper side ofthe stem a b new stems S, S„ S,„ grow verti-cally upward, while at the lower end of thepiece a b opposite the new stems roots W,W„ W,„ grow out. This influence of…
