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 (The action of organic organic poisons) of one organic in accounting

nature.) on the leaves in accounting or causing  the

or causing the movement of the tentacles.)

Prussic acid.— Hydrogamic acid     I placed minute drops (1/60 of a minnim) of Scheele's mixture, which contains six per cent, or of the pure acid, on the viscid secretion of several glands. In 40' I found the glands & the s the they were coloured bright red & their secretion was from them likewise slightly coloured. After 3° 15' about two-thirds of the tentacles thus treated had become inflected, & they remained so for two days, when they appeared killed dead. I also placed on the discs of five leaves half-minim drops of a weaker mixture, viz containing two per cent of the pure acid. The gland was a before much reddened. The unused shorter tentacles which had, their glands of which was immersed, were inflected after 3° 10'; & next morning after 21° almost every tentacle on all five leaves were unflected, & the leaves tentacles evidently killed much injured. But the other leaves on the same plants appeared quite healthy.

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minim: "The smallest unit of fluid measure, about equivalent to one drop of liquid; the sixtieth part of a fluid drachm." OED.