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Frank has compared the hairs on pedicels & on disc of leaf after immersion for 3°. 15' in Chloride of Gold — All the little points intensely black.— some few of Hairs just tinged dull purple at tips — the little point points are present are present on footstalk. A leaf was immersed for about 1/4° in C. of Amm (2 gr. to 1 oz) & there was aggregation round & radiating from them in the cells of the tentacles & currents of protoplasm, just like beneath glands. (I saw a few days ago the contents of these little prominences aggregate from C. of Ammonia.) (We must remember that Drosophyllum has tentacles & absorbent glands on back of leaf are these rudiments of the absorbents & not of the secretors ?? This more probable view.— Dionæa

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Weak Infusion of raw meat

(a) In 10° & compared prominences with 2 other leaves immersed for equal time in pure water. The prominences seem to consist of [sketch] the upper cells beng laterally double & I believe doubt bifid. — After meat, I think much more aggregation there after water, & I distinctly saw no changes of form in the little masses of almost colourless protoplasm in the upper cell. — These prominences are not confined to the outermost tentacles, They can hardly represent on the back rudimentary tentacles as in Drosophyllum, for otherwise tentacles branched must once have existed