(3) After 1 hr. 40 m. thirty-five inflected; after 6 hrs. “a large number” (to quote my own memorandum) inflected, but from want of time they were not counted; after 24 hrs. re-expanded.

(4) After 1 hr. 40 m. about thirty inflected; after 6 hrs. “a large number all round the leaf” inflected, but they were not counted; after 10 hrs. began to re-expand.

(5) to (12) These were not more inflected than leaves often are in water, having respectively 16, 8, 10, 8, 4, 9, 14, and 0 tentacles inflected.  Two of these leaves, however, were remarkable from having their blades slightly inflected after 6 hrs.

With respect to the twelve corresponding leaves in water, (1) had, after 1 hr. 35 m., fifty tentacles inflected, but after 11 hrs. only twenty-two remained so, and these formed a group, with the blade at this point slightly inflected.  It appeared as if this leaf had been in some manner accidentally excited, for instance by a particle of animal matter which was dissolved by the water. (2) After 1 hr. 45 m. thirty-two tentacles inflected, but after 5 hrs. 30 m. only twenty-five inflected, and these after 10 hrs. all re-expanded; (3) after 1 hr. twenty-five inflected, which after 10 hrs. 20 m. were all re-expanded; (4) and (5) after 1 hr. 35 m. six and seven tentacles inflected, which re-expanded after 11 hrs.; (6), (7) and (8) from one to three inflected, which [page 164] soon re-expanded; (9), (10), (11) and (12) none inflected, though observed for twenty-four hours.

Comparing the states of the twelve leaves in water with those in the solution, there could be no doubt that in the latter a larger number of tentacles were inflected, and these to a greater degree; but the evidence was by no means so clear as in the former experiments with stronger solutions.  It deserves attention that the inflection of four of the leaves in the solution went on increasing during the first 6 hrs., and with some of them for a longer time; whereas in the water the inflection of the three leaves which were the most affected, as well as of all the others, began to decrease during this same interval.  It is also remarkable that the blades of three of the leaves in the solution were slightly inflected, and this is a most rare event with leaves in water, though it occurred to a slight extent in one (No. 1), which seemed to have been in some manner accidentally excited.  All this shows that the solution produced some effect, though less and at a much slower rate than in the previous cases.  The small effect produced may, however, be accounted for in large part by the majority of the leaves having been in a poor condition.

Of the leaves in the solution, No. 1 bore 200 glands and received 1/48000 of a grain of the salt.  Subtracting the seventeen tentacles which were not inflected, each gland could have absorbed only the 1/8784000 of a grain (.00000738 mg.).  This amount caused the tentacle bearing each gland to be greatly inflected.  The blade was also inflected.