chai-. vn. 



SLEEP OF LEAVES. 



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more than 90°, so as to assume at night their vertical position. 

 On tho first day the leaflet simply moved up and down ; on the 



Fig. 131. 



second day it plainly circumnutated between 8 a.m. and 430 pjs., 

 after which hour the great evening fall commenced. 



