Sends letter and seeds from [F. J. Cohn].
Is working too hard.
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Sends letter and seeds from [F. J. Cohn].
Is working too hard.
Suggests sensitive plants that close at night would be protected from nocturnal-feeding snails. JIR’s brother in India says snails occur there in abundance.
Has been observing the movements of leaves and cotyledons; sleep movements are exaggerated circumnutation. Reports some odd observations on movement in Oxalis species.
Can send FD twisted branches of some climbing plants if he wishes.
Asks questions related to movement in plants. The cotyledons of Oxalis offer a promising field for study.
Wonders why Julius von Sachs thinks bloom is a protection against insects.
Encloses notes on the cotyledons of Oxalis species.
Sleep of Porlieria hygrometrica seems independent of light.
Will have lots of time for oats. W. F. P. Pfeffer’s point is that there is no growth in sleepers with joints. A. F. Batalin says there is a slight growth.
[Dated Saturday 28th by FD.]
Will dispatch the best twisted stems he can find.
Considers the role of the pulvinus in leaf movement.
Describes his talk with Julius von Sachs about canary-grass.