secreting glands of hanstein.² there were crusts of secretions on some glands & bright globules in others; i thought it would be interesting to see whether the ammonia would not make the protoplasm active, & make a disturbance among the secretion all of a sudden i saw a little blob sticking out beyond the gland, as in fig. 2.

i thought it was secretion, but i cannot swear that it wasn’t there before. anyhow i soon saw it alter its shape, &underwent regular protoplasmic movement.

i thought it must be some kind of amoeba or plasmodium, sticking onto a gland so i looked at the next gland & there was just the same thing   i saw a great ribbon of protoplasm, & to my delight, ablack granule, fig. 3., which walked down it & disapeared in the main body of the mass.³

i afterwads saw the same thing in 5 or6 other glands, though not in every one which i examined. they were always in the same place, viz in the centre of the gland & this does not look at all like a parasite, i think. if it doesnt all come to nothing, it is grand, because it is like the absorption of fat in the intestines by protoplasmic feelers between the epithelium cells. also, a resinous secretion might become a slimy one, then the plant would catch live insects, & the pepsin secretion might be developed—somehow—in a manner better imagined than described. i shall try feeding the protoplasm with vermillion like one does a colourless blood corpuscle, & then it ought to pass into the gland. on reinke principles ought not marginal tentacles of drosera to be serration-glands?⁴

hooray for theory. blow facts.

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