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Information on plants requested by CD.

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Cancelled: part of 11847

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Lists of Acacia and Eucalyptus species.

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Sends quotations on Dionaea and Sarracenia. [See Insectivorous plants, 2d ed., pp. 243, 366.]

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Sends information on nitrogen and albuminoid content of seeds of Brassica.

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Oxalis seeds incorrectly named. H. N. Moseley says pigeons in Malaya eject seeds fit for germination.

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Oliver says Oxalis colorata is O. floribunda.

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Has sent Mimosa. The horticultural and physiological Mimosa is M. albida, which has a western distribution, rather than M. sensitiva as it is commonly called in error.

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CD may not mean same thing as WTT-D by absorbent pegs in Abronia.

F. O. Bower’s paper on Welwitschia [germination] [Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 21 (1881): 15–30] will appear in January.

Has observed earthworms for CD: they do not draw Robinia leaves into burrows by the petioles.

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Name of plant: Colocasia antiquorum, Schott. = Caladium esculentum, Hort. Vent.

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WTT-D’s statement perverted by Times [4 May 1878, p. 6, on WTT-D’s Royal Institution lectures on vegetable morphology].

S. H. Vines’s work on light inhibition of Phycomyces hyphae ["The influence of light upon the growth of unicellular organs" (1878), Arb. Bot. Inst. Würzburg 2 (1882): 133–47] suggests heliotropism in green plants is independent of, and more primitive than, photosynthesis.

Heliotropism in aerial roots.

Frank Darwin’s work.

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PS concerning Imantophyllum.

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Comments on Insectivorous plants, p. 353 mentioning J. J. T. Schloesing’s experiments with carbonate of ammonia [see J. J. T. Schloesing, "Sur l’absorption de l’ammoniaque de l’air par les végétaux", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 78 (1874): 1700–3].

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Identifies seeds adhering to leaves of Pinguicula [see Insectivorous plants, p. 369].

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Reports on his examination of the dried specimens of Pinguicula at Kew to answer CD’s query whether all species secrete.

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Terminology for asexual gemmae of Lunularia vulgaris and comparison with Marchantia.

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Is forwarding several plants requested by CD.

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Sends specimens of Commelyna.

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WTT-D and E. R. Lankester wish to visit CD.

Has corrected some references for new edition of Variation.

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Composition of the residue left on evaporation of the fluid in Nepenthes.