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The latter part of this study was made possible by means of a grant from the “Committee on the Effects of Radiation upon Living Organisms” of the National Research Council. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the Physics Department of the University of Colorado and to the Boulder X-ray Association for radiation of plants.