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Sida corylifolia (cordifolia in ⨀)

Seedlings 2 inches high.

On one the 2d true leaf produced .85 with petiole in length, stood at noon 9° above horizon & at 10° P.m. at 32° 28° above do & so had risen 21° only 19° [illeg]

Another 2d leaf on separate plant & rather older, being 1.4 in length with petiole stood at noon 7° above horizon & at 10° P.m 32° above horizon, so had risen 25°.

N. B when bush gets older the young leaves stand vertical. So this exactly the reverse of what usually occurs.

This little rising all the more remarkable as pulvinus on the 2d & 3d leaf moderately well developed. This uppermost ↘

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part of petiole being rather thicker & having rather smoother aspect & when section made is seen to be formed of mass of smaller cells.

These seedlings are now 2 1/2 & nearly 3 inches high & some most some of the leaves are quite vertical, & others very highly inclined.