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flowering types? Several such have been included in published lists, 
but on investigation they all melt away. which has been be- 
lieved to be a Palm the Professor showed to be a Fern. Another, 
regarded as a near ally of the Broom-rapes, was now known to be 
nothing of the kind. The evidence that any such plant existed during 
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of growth in the stems of Calamites, Lycopods, Asterophyllites, and 
on which has no counterpart in 
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has shown to be the characteristic of the tropical forests of the present 
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Sept. 20th. Department of Anatomy and Physiology. Prof. Ruther- 
ford in the chair.—‘‘ On the Movements of the Glands of Drosera.” 
A. W. Bennett.—The observations were all made on Drosera rotun- 
gnif: 
the knobs and stretching in glutinous strings from 
The secretion has probably an attraction for flies and other small 
very often show as many as three or four The experiment m 
of placing a very sm: t, a species of Thrips, on a leaf at that 
uite unencumbered, beneath a low power e microscope ; 
all the more deeply. The contact of the insect appeared to excite a 
‘It » now 
tinued its struggles, a motion of the legs being clearly erceptible 
e 
e insect was 
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had practically ceased, a remarkable change took place in the 
‘Almost the whole of the glands on its surface and its margin, even 
