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eof the causes that most embarrass the pro- 
@altivation is our not perceiving with suf- 
ily m r 
thistory of that life, and to master all which 
meter with its healthy * That step once 
rator capable o 
by a contaminated 
by an ete 
ndition 
At —— these things 
p one every da š 
naaa at can be found as will 
* min 5 the presence among 
its of an animal life. But here and there cases 
ey leave no cere 
not of the 
Wis S of ve e Powe 
E 
2 ly owerfu agents upon 
i hi 
— avias I 5 — plants of which 
2 ago s ho el by Professor Marcer, of 
other if the common Kidney Bean, the 
i pen » Were exposed to the action of 
soe oe 3 they will not only 
( 0 their infu „ but in a ma 
y 
a similar 
. — yellow — chore no 
nts with | 
— one knows that if ith bi 
Ber are touch 
— Chronicle. ie 
of a wa sa 
: eee oi one after thie other, and beer’ leaflet collapsed, 
f excitability of the plant, the weenie are the effec 
eed. 
ing his reason will | as 
or 
r. other a approngh eac 
| th 
an When, after a * the lea 
| the 
fact i 
ng | curious — well worth the attention of those who study 
er difficulty ; if the flowers are 
cut off and placed 
n Prussic acid, the same thing happens, but more 
rapidly. hen, however, the geet is eae in 
solutions of arsenic sublim 
or corros the 
stamens equally lose their excitability, my 13 0 
of becoming flexible, they ar iff, hard, and 
rittle. Ef ects, quite similar, 
the Sensitive 1 an — — 
He 
e great principle of Re 
d 
“epora inference, that the 
is in its essential nature the sam 
ithin them 
our own. 
Dr. Marcer has lately tested 8 curious theory |! 
by means of Car 
poisons. 19th of last October he read the 
sation Jetsons to the Physical Society of i 
or two of pure chloroform be pla 
Plant, the petiole is soon seen 
jets colla 
or two ae pho, 
with the irritability of the 
e caves 1 that on w 
and s 
ich the dieler: 
ate below it on the e stem 
not in so dee 
al though ose 0 
After a certain 
— 
5 collapse as 
derer ‘doses th 
at all events yey wither 
pa 5 of the e 
and the greater he 
Tf, instead of putting the . on the base of 
té petiole, a little be dropped on the leaflets near the 
on the branch collapse pair by 
pair, the common wes droops, then the leaflets on the 
pra 
e end o r three minutes the n oppos 
— be if ‘the > plant i is 8 most of the he ove |i 
the same stem, follow their 3 
they manif 
es reopen, 
same 8 ergs ty as be ste. 
“ What ost curious in hia this is the manner in 
— the action of the chloroform spreads from branch 
m leaf to kaf, though the Jiquid disap- 
most as soon às itis placed 
has just been see 
© 
B 
result. There w 
difference, that here and there 
adi pree upon | b 
e | thè analog 
Por 
| hension of facts, or 
y 
ced o 
the oe int of the common petiole of a leaf of the Sensitive 
t 
helt) | ere” ie 
? 
nearly the same; 
and with a similar 
hey to is was 
apparently caused by excess of chloro „ a larger 
e than that employed by Dr having 
| Tt is thus seen th 
On chloroform kill —— — well as animals, though 
small doses are innocu 
uch E Apn a rendit 
ther — 
table * fie should teach the 
plants a 
t impossible to doubt 
PULAR ERRORS originate either in a misa 
the one case 
e inference h 
8 
declare them to be something 
han improbabilities—that they are, in 
W 
uiter 
of the viviparons beetle, or to that of the sea- 
serpent, which we are thoroughly satisfied belong 
to the first class; but we wi perdoa 
s y sen ete ” alreac 
on heathy moors, 
appearance un 
the here noticed. It is a well esta- 
blished fact, that many other plants hich we re pre- 
viously unknown to N — — — have some- 
times sprun 
g vpi 
| conditions of the soil i in 1 they have ge ap, Toa 
themselves. 
It may be difficult, it ~ even be for gt 
n some cases to give a perfectly satisfactory 
sient? why one 4265 rather ba another e 
s have ari 
ears ago omer. 
R tartled the ns oon by an an- 
nouncement w 
t he h 
periments on 
nitrie or sulphuric sold: tes 
th eaves above 
plain the a 
parent missi 
— et in the opposite cretion, from above down- h 
ards? 
at Nature is not t endowed 
i 
g tl bet t g 
pound fron fro ne part o of 
rean there wi in this plant any 3 
way not u 
mals is affected ? Notwithstanding the interesting facts 
made known by Du and o this subjeet is 
still in too uncertain a state to enable a cautious man 
to give any opinion. Hower owever it may 
eet rs. 
"a —— same kind as the above, made 
ve results somewhat similar to 
il 
— whilst a d 
the Sensitive Plant aut | 
- | has devised certain I e by which 
ere n was t this difference, however, si 
nhir 
c 
iole of a leaf, ar the — of a a branch of the spe o! 
mad belo 
not 
y be asked aran pice —— — 
with sufficient 2 for so 
doing? The same question was en men 
fancied that fossil shells, Roman coins, and 
Nature in her 
of living beings is securëd, and that in — Ana case 
which has been duly bee their reproduction 
is in conformity with tl eneral laws. 
rt s exist a certain seeds, even 
ae y l ws that such 
lf i. ae 
