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consciousness. Among plants we have many interesting and 
admirable examples of organic behaviour; but nowhere so 
much as a hint of that profiting by individual experience 
Fic. 10.—Catasetum ; OC, diagram of column; a, anther; an, horn; d, ad- 
hesive disc; f, filament of anther; g, ovarium; ped, pedicel; D and 
E, pollinium ; p, pollen-mass. (From Darwin’s “ Orchids.” ) 
which is the criterion of the effective presence of conscious 
guidance and control. 
V.—REFLEX ACTION 
It is sometimes said that the tentacles of the Sun-dew leaf 
indicate a primitive kind of reflex action in plants, and that 
they afford evidence of discrimination. “It is,” says Romanes, 
