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1878

Drosera rotundifolia

On June 3d affixed glass-filament to back of oldish leaf; which stood obliquely & abruptly up; it circumnutated on a small scale as traced under Skylight on vertical glass —

next day (4th) it descended all day in a zig-zag line, so this movement which seem often or always to occur with the leaves as they grow old, seem modified circumnutation.

[in margin:] Epinasty

On June 5' put at 9° am a bits of meat on leaf, it continued to descend, zig-zagging considerably & making one loop & then ascended & continued to do so all the 6th. But I cannot trust these latter observations, as perhaps they were wholly due to the infolding of the distal end of leaf & which by 6° P.m has loosened the filament.

[in margin:] not to be trusted.