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U. montana

well watered on Sept 22d.}

Sept. 24' 8° A.m Bladders Tubers measured} I can see 5 Tubers

1 Pin Green

(Oct 16th 8 AM. ⊙ ⊙ ⊙ ⊙ much wrinkled)

(Oct 27' long ⊙ ⊙ ⊙ ⊙ Broad Thick ⊙ ⊙ Surface much shrivelled Rhizome to which attached dead & separated from Rhizome was cylindrical green)

long ⊙ ⊙ ⊙ ⊙ — Broad

(⊙ ⊙ ⊙ ⊙ Oct 8th. 8° A.m very green surface rather irregular)

à (Oct 27th all four leaves green but slightly curved curved backward & very slightly & shrivelled, but feel soft)

2 Pins (Oct 16th ⊙ ⊙ ⊙ ⊙ quite smooth)

(Oct. 27th Long ⊙ ⊙ ⊙ ⊙  Broad Thick—⊙ ⊙ green much shrivelled soft — very [illeg] & much flattened still attached to Rhizm

long ⊙ ⊙ ⊙ ⊙ Broad

(⊙ ⊙ ⊙ Oct 8th 8° Am very green rather wrinkled Earth seems as dry as dust in all upper part.)

Bent Pin ⊙ ⊙ ⊙ ⊙

(Leaves quite green Oct 8th Brown Rhizome brown withered still attached to rhizome, as flat as thinnest dry leaf; but as seems to have been upturned may have been injured— There seems 2 sorts of tissue— something odd about it. This third rhizome must have died from accident)

Pot 4 1/2 by 4 1/2 outside measure kept in Hot-House no Bell-glass & never a drop of water

(over)

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(Mem. before these observations were begun one bladder cut off another very large one, rotted from accident & many rhizome cut off.— also one since experiment began decayed perhaps from accident.)

Oct 28' 7° 30' The fragment of tuber which was put in water after slices cut away yesterday at 9° are now constantly swollen & smooth externally & tense — what an attraction for water!! but the dea the one spe separated from rhizome & of a green colour & which I believe was dead owing to death of rhizome has not swollen in the least—

Nov. 3d. Leaves of plant, which was replanted on Oct 27th now dead & whole plant dead & Tubers all rotten. —

(Dug up on 6th) Utricularia Montana

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Oct 27' In long & transverse section of tuber — no great difference to what when fresh before. — surface wet when cut — papillæ on exterior surface not shrunk. (This was the best tuber & attached tube to rhizome, marked by 2 pins) No., there is this difference that walls of cells now not nearly so straight & from outline of cells less distinctly angular. It is clear that they have contracted.

(I have turned plant out of Pot— soil as dry as turnpike road — I found 4 subterranean tubers all in the same state as above, shrivelled & flat as above.; 3 green & 1 white. —

[in margin:] (House rather hot)

I marked them with white Thread & planted the plant again & kept very damp. Oct 27th 9° 30' Am

N. B. With respect to plant having kept pretty well from Sept. 22d. when watered till this day it must be remembered 2 tubers were cut away & 2 died from injury & that several rhizomes were cut off for examination & soil deeply disturbed for this purpose — Otherwise plant wd have kept longer fresh.

[in margin:] 35 days!!

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1 Pin Oct 27 1/6 shorter

but 1/2 & 1/3 less broad

.31 of an inch 6.2 broad at first

6.2/20 = 3.1/10 =.31.23 —.46 broad

.13 —.25 thick

2 Pins 1/11' shorter

1/8 less broad

but the transverse slice

6 [illeg] broad

.52 do

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