Abstract
Deplasmolysis injury, ductility of cytoplasmic strands, and the shape assumed by injected oil drops on deplasmolysis were investigated. The surface membrane of the protoplast of non-hardy cells stiffened when dehydrated osmotically. As a result, it ruptured readily when subjected to tension. The stiffening either failed to occur in hardy cells, or it arose only as a result of a much greater dehydration (depending on the degree of hardiness). The refractive index of the protoplasmic surface increased more on dehydration in the case of non-hardy than of hardy cells. Plasmolysis, if maintained for some time, induced a clumping of plastids and granules (systrophy) in non-hardy but not in hardy cells. All these facts indicate a greater hydrophily in hardy than in non-hardy cells—both of the surface membrane of the protoplasm and, as shown in Part I, of the protoplasm as a whole, although it is probably less marked in the latter.
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