ABSORPTION OP NUTKIMENT BY INSECTIVOEOUS PLANTS. 



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Remcf/rJcs on the experiments of Series I. — The possibility of the 

 lithium getting on to the earth from the leaves and thence to the 

 roots of the plants in the experiments already described appears to be 

 very small, and, moreover, in an experiment in Series I, a portion of 

 earth taken from the roots of the plant showed no lithium when 

 examined with the spectroscope. In another experiment (of a former 

 series) two Droseras were growing so close together that it was diffi- 



