238 DROSERA ROTUNDIFOLIA. Cnap. X. 
was placed in a medial line at the basal end of the disc, near 
the footstalk; after 2 hrs. 30 m. some neighbouring tentacles 
were inflected ; after 6 hrs. the tentacles on both sides of the 
footstalk, and some way up both sides, were moderately in- 
flected; after 8 hrs. the tentacles at the further or distal end 
were more inflected than those on either side; after 28 hrs. 
the meat was well clasped by all the tentacles, excepting by the 
exterior ones on the two sides. 
(4) Another bit of meat was placed at the opposite or distal 
end of another leaf, with exactly the same relative results. 
(5) A minute bit of meat was placed on one side of the disc; 
next day the neighbouring short tentacles were inflected, as 
well as in a slight degree three or four on the opposite side 
near the footstalk. On the second day these latter tentacles 
showed signs of re-expanding, so I added a fresh bit of meat 
at nearly the same spot, and after two days some of the short 
tentacles on the opposite side of the disc were inflected. As 
soon as these began to re-expand, I added another bit of meat, 
and next day all the tentacles on the opposite side of the disc 
were inflected towards the meat; whereas we have seen that 
those on the same side were affected by the first bit of meat 
which was given. 
Now for the general results. Of the eighteen leaves 
on which bits of. meat were placed on the right 
ot left sides of the disc, eight had a vast number of 
tentacles inflected on the same side, and in four of 
them the blade itself on this side was likewise in- 
flected ; whereas not a single tentacle nor the blade 
was affected on the opposite side. These leaves pre- 
sented a very curious appearance, as if only the in- 
flected side was active, and the other paralysed. In the 
remaiping ten cases, a few tentacles became inflected 
beyond the medial line, on the side opposite to that 
where the meat lay; but, in some of these cases, only 
at the proximal or distal ends of the leaves. The 
inflection on the opposite side always occurred con- 
siderably after that on the same side, and in one in- 
stance not until the fourth day. We have also seen 
