Note ** — Chapter XIII · DIONAEA MUSCIPULA.

Nuttall, in his ‘Gen. American Plants,’ p. 277 (note), says that, whilst collecting this plant in its native home, “I had occasion to observe that a detached leaf would make repeated efforts towards disclosing itself to the influence of the sun; these attempts consisted in an undulatory motion of the marginal ciliae, accompanied by a partial opening and succeeding collapse of the lamina, which at length terminated in a complete expansion and in the destruction of sensibility.” I am indebted to Prof. Oliver for this reference; but I do not understand what took place. [page 319]