66 PROLIFEROUS LEAVES, AND NOTES THEREON. 
« shows itself adequate to every function of stamen and pistil” 
without the ordinary special metamorphosis. The enquiry 
into the “natura naturans” of such cells, previous to movement ; 
into the “Jatens processus” as it does commence; into the 
character of the little bladder above noticed; and into other 
collateral phenomena, is now left, by the observer of “some 
submerged and half-decayéd leaves in a ditch near Upper 
Bebington in the winter of 1849,” as a legacy to his younger 
followers along the footsteps of creation. 
Rhyl, 9th March, 1878. 
