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Leaves to have that The leaves certainly act differently according to the nature of the object placed on them. We have seen that when merely irritated the hairs after closing in promptly reexpanded in a far shorter time than when an insect has been caught; this was well shown when a fly was placed on one side of the leaf, & when the hairs on the other opposite side closed in free sympathy but say for these soon opened again.—    Whilst then over the fly remained closed for days.

In some instances the hairs clasped various substances objects within equal time; but I always found the substances, which contained ; for instance I put me [2 words illeg] a bits of raw meat, & then at the corners damp paper, bits of quill & moss on to several leaves & they were equally well enclosed embraced ½ in two hours; (but I always find the innutritious substances were released much sooner than flies or meat.  Damp wood is the [2 words illeg] which I tried as seemed to be retained longer than moss, paper or quill. but a greater number of experiments would be required to be sure of this.   Raw meat acted energetically but seemed too strong & generally injured the leaf & became mouldy. or even killed the leaf   In another case I put some flies & bits of quill, paper & moss & stuck on some leaves; the flies were clasped in a few hours, whereas, after 25 hours very few hairs were inflected over the other substances; I then put rather more on those same leaves, without removing the paper & moss,  -  minute bits of raw meat, & all the hairs in an [illeg] manner all clasped the meat [illeg] quickly & energetically completely, in one then they had done over the above named objects, —

Again I placed these bits of dry [illeg], & these (I concluded) must have weighed fully as much as the small flies,