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(The upper surface of the leaf except towards the margin is [text excised] covered with minute glands of a pink reddish colour, the rest of the leaf being green. The glands are few close round the sensitive filaments & in number towards the margins of the leaf; & there are I have seen none on the spikes or on the foliaceous footstalks. Seen through a microscope they resemble the back of a tortoise; they The glands are formed Their upper surface is convex & consists of from 20 to 30 polygonal cells, filled with purple fluid; they upper surface is convex & they stand on a very short pe footstalks pedicels, into which spiral vessels do not enter, in which respect they differ most from the tentacles of Drosera, & the spikes The surface of the leaf leaves, supports, besides besides these glands & ordinary stomata, supports minute, reddish-brown— coloured projecting petaloid bodies, which resemble in shape a minute open flower. They abound on the upper & lower surface of the spikes. I do not know what their nature or function may is,) may be; but apparently) they have do not the power of either secreting or absorbing secrete or absorb.)

[Insectivorous plants, pp. 277-8: "The upper surface of the leaf is thickly covered, excepting towards the margins, with minute glands of a reddish or purplish colour, the rest of the leaf being green. There are no glands on the spikes, or on the foliaceous footstalk, The glands are formed of from twenty to thirty polygonal cells, filled with purple fluid. Their upper surface is convex. They stand on very short pedicels, into which spiral vessels do not enter, in which respect they differ from the tentacles of Drosera. They secrete, but only when excited by the absorption of certain matters; and they have the power of absorption. Minute projections, formed of eight divergent arms of a reddish-brown or orange colour, and appearing under the microscope like elegant little flowers, are scattered in considerable numbers over the foot-stalk, the backs of the leaves, and the spikes, with a few on the upper surface of the lobes."]