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Traced on vertical glass Dionæa old Leaf with infusion of meat

Petiole not secured

7º15'P.M Sept 28

F. 137

Movement due to closing of Leaf & circumnutation

6º. 45' a.m Sept. 25th

5º P.m

8º. 48'. P.m

9.45

10º 45' P.m 25'

7º a.m. 26th

9º am 26th

These letters apply to the dot close by.

(2/3 scale 5 sets of no lettering)

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Dionæa muscipula: closer movement & circumnutation of the line of a full-grown leaf, after the administration of some which already an infusion of raw-meat, traced in darkness on a vertical glass for 7˚15 P.m Sept 24th to 9 am 25th ─ Apex of leaf 8 1/2 inches from the glass. Tracing in Copy Figure here given reduced to 2/3 of original tracing. sur

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Ipomoea

there were some families which had been long & more closely interbred, in a closer degree than is possible with any of the higher animals, than the members of these families would be almost dwarfs; their average height for ten generations being only 4 ft 8 1/4 in.

Table 17.

Ipomoea purpurea. Summary of measurements in inches and decimals of the ten generations

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