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IRRITABILITY. 
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whilst all the rest of the plant, and the neighbouring plants, 
were depressed, contracted, and in the state of sleep. On 
the morrow they resumed a little sensibility, but seemed 
benumbed. 
In the same manner Macaire has interfered with other 
plants as to the state of sleep, and observes that prussic acid 
thoroughly deranges the botanical indications of time of 
Linnaeus. 
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