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July 29th 9° 15' Salt-Water

Oxalis enneafolia— Hooker says Flora A. "abundant, especially near the sea". Leaflets beautifully silvery — cleaned with tepid sponge 3 of bloom & placed on salt-water; also on opposite spheres of salt water on uncleaned leaves. 3 leaves white wool

at 10° 30' 2 of the leaflets closed almost close.

July 30th 8. 30' all 3 cleaned leaflets with salt— almost closed, as if going to sleep but not depressed.

Aug 1. All 3 leaves much injured, drooping with edges brown (Aug 2d all killed)

― 4° P.m. one uncleaned leaf on which spheres has rested— is now a little injured. (a) Back

July 29th 9° 15' — 3 other leaflets cleaned, pure water

Aug 4th one of those injured on midrib where leaflet is indented.

Aug 12th this latter leaf had a brown streak & the other has a brown speck — possibly injured points, for rest of surface over all of which water rested not in the least injured.

Aug 15. looked at doubled leaf surface covered with little points longer than those of Silene maritima & removed with ether. The leaflet which had been sponged have most of the prominences removed from the protuberant parts of epidermis. —

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(a) Aug. 6. 9° The injury has spread from the salt to all the leaflets, & whole leaf now dying. Yesterday one leaflet on which spheres had rested whole time not in the least injured; but another was, I suspect, slight puncture injury or bloom removed. —