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a nutritious or innutritious object placed on the central disc, or when the leaf has been immersed in certain solutions.   & even if left immersed for 16 or 17 hours in pure water.     The contents the ca vy may, however, be similarly affected when no inflection occur has occurred or can occur as with the [illeg], certain tentacles of the disc, & in certain other cases. The change consists in the homogenous fluid separating or segregating [illeg] into o colourless liquid, with flo floating, irregular, or spherical, oval elongated, or thread like beaded masses of thick [apparently] viscid, purpose matter. No doubt protoplasm, floating in it. These small masses incessantly undergo slow spontaneous movement & changes of form, I presume & no doubt consist of protoplasm. Tentacles    Tentacles in this condition with the contents of these cells in the segregated condition can be distinguished by their mottled purple appearance from unaffected tentacles, [illeg] though a very weak lens or even by the naked eye.

The change invariably was begins within the gland & travels slowly down the cells of its pedicels; of the tentacles; & can be observed for  hence the basal portion which alone has becomes incurved, is the part th last affected. Owing to the thickness of the

[Pedicel: A small stalk or stalk-like structure in a plant. OED]