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Eastbourne

D. longifolia

Try sensitising to touch & [illeg] of inorganic matter on glands

Is tip of leaf naturally reflexed?

Colour of uniform side of Hairs tentacles?

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Eastbourne. Oct 1. — Drosera longifolia

Examined some incurved Hairs — The convex side pale & concave dark red with few spheres near glands & necklaces; but very little solid-matter. The division is exactly medial to spiral runs in darker side half—

But then these spec. had been for above a day in water. — I could just detect trace of movement in these spheres — one budded & separated from larger one; & one moved away from others — No circulation — no difference in heads of marginal hairs.

Oct 3. Examined another leaf of D. long, which arrived broken off— all marginal Hairs bowed into Hooks — the convex side always colourless & concave dark red, but only in lower & curved part of Hair— but then I see same law of colouring in disc of leaf— & this may be only usual law of colouring—

(It naturally catches plenty of flies by lateral Hairs inflected.)

Oct 7. put 2 leaves for 2 hours with inflected Hairs in sherry & there is no difference in colour on under & upper side of Hairs

Oct 7th Put another leaf which had under side of Hairs white & several several perfectly empty & colourless cells in Wine for about 3/4 hour in tin Box, & these colourless cells became as red as any of the others so that red somehow comes into cells. I have also noticed occasionally empty cells in inflected hairs of D rotundifolia, which probably never takes place without inflection

Oct 14th certain just reverse [sketch] dark red — ─ colourless

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Eastbourne

Starch

D. longifolia

Besides salt & nitric acid

p. 3 Starch

p. 3 White Leaf in Starch

p 4. Milk &c on Back of Leaf

5 Albumen back of Leaf

7, 8 Gum

8. Whole leaf in gum

9 Leaf, structure of Hair after 24˚ in W D' longifolia

colour filling empty cells