THE 
Jlaturalists’Inmmal 
A Monthly Medium for Collectors and Students of Natural History. 
Address of Office: 369, EUSTON ROAD, LONDON, N.W. 
Vol. II. No. 16. OCTOBER, 1893. Price 2d. 
COMMON SENSITIVE FLOWERS. 
By G. H. Bryan, m.a. 
Leaf of the Sensitive Plant (.Mimosa pudica ). 
*OST people have seen or heard of the Sensitive Plant 
(.Mimosa pudica), the Venus’s Fly Trap (Dionoca musci- 
sjMIU pula), and the Telegraph Plant (Desmodium gyrans). But 
’ while these are only to be met with in hot-houses in 
this country, there are many very common British wild and gar¬ 
den flowers, which, when touched, exhibit sensitive properties 
hardly less interesting, although generally on rather a smaller 
scale. These are far less widely known than they deserve to be, 
and as some of these plants are to be found almost everywhere, it 
is easy for all to examine them for themselves. 
