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Utricularia

August (Thursday) 10º 25' branch in Carmine

Aug 7 Cd see no trace of carmine within bladders, nor within glands except in one case, but contents seem rather more shrunk than yesterday; nor within the quadrifid spines, with the oval particle undergoing Brownian movement. These quadrifids seem to rise from footstalk from a circular cell, with much protoplasm.

August 6 Examined one of new bladders, a vast number of glands on margin & a valvehave dripped off & the pedicle alone remain [sketch] The glands which do remain on margin & valveall have their content shrunk; but not contracted into pyramids each as Frank described. – Can this be from having been [deprived] of water in tin-box by Post.

The 4 spires on valve very sharp & long & sides one pair in front of the other.

Aug 7 – much carmine precipitated on & round valves, but then much on branches, which are repeatedly bifid spinose & terminate in sharp spines.

Only a few of the bladder contain organisms, & these so decayed, pulpy & pale brown that I cd not tell at all what they were. This branch however had grown in unusually clear water, & had been selected from this cause.