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had perished. The explanation of this fact is, I believe, that the lower 
al 
“If a stick which has arrested a revolving shoot, but has not as yet 
been wound round, be suddenly taken away, the shoot generally springs 
forward, showing that it has continued to press against the stick. If the 
stick, short. i : shoot 
they were ipvapeba, on repeated trials, of twining round a thin stick, 
‘the power of Tovement was retained after flexibility had 
A ; ode, 7 UL ' “ 
I quietly withdrew the stick, and in the course of the day the curled 
part straightened itself and re-commenced revolving; but the lower a - 
roy curied portion of the penultimate internode did not move, @ 80 
hinge Separating the moving and the motionless part of the same inter- 
pose Aha 9 lee days, however, I found that the lower part of this 
internode had likewise recovered its revolving power. These several facts 
