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plants were collected chosen in two pla districts. The results of These experiments, were tried during August & September, & the result seem to me decisively to proves that the glands absorb nitro tentacles become inflected in consequence of the absorption of nitrogenous matter & the mere fact proof fact of the such absorption of such matter by gland on the leaves of a plant is, I believe a & the view fact in vegetable physiology. In

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in several instances often also became inflected [8 words illeg] & these sometimes before the tentacles had become inflected so often in any marked great degree. This occurs in one in 5h, in that all of 3 have [illeg] I have never noticed this fact with any other organic fluid or saline solution. but one well marked in [7 words illeg] but I do not venture to assert that such may not occur. I record in one case that the edge of the leaf became in 5° became much curled in round the drop of milk.