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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Insectivorous Plants
Charles Darwin
582 pages~11 hr 36 min read24 chapters$4.99
The common sundew closes on a fly, and Charles Darwin spent years finding out how. He touches its tentacles with hairs, meat, and glass, timing every bend, watching protoplasm gather in the cells. This is the founding study of plants that eat animals, patient and astonishing. Watch Drosera turn the tables on the insect world.
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24 chapters
- 1INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS
- 2CONTENTS
- 3DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- 4INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS.
- 5CHAPTER I. DROSERA ROTUNDIFOLIA, OR THE COMMON SUN-DEW.
- 6CHAPTER II. THE MOVEMENTS OF THE TENTACLES FROM THE CONTACT OF SOLID BODIES.
- 7CHAPTER III. AGGREGATION OF THE PROTOPLASM WITHIN THE CELLS OF THE TENTACLES.
- 8CHAPTER IV. THE EFFECTS OF HEAT ON THE LEAVES.
- 9CHAPTER V. THE EFFECTS OF NON-NITROGENOUS AND NITROGENOUS ORGANIC FLUIDS ON THE LEAVES.
- 10CHAPTER VI. THE DIGESTIVE POWER OF THE SECRETION OF DROSERA.
- 11CHAPTER VII. THE EFFECTS OF SALTS OF AMMONIA.
- 12CHAPTER VIII. THE EFFECTS OF VARIOUS OTHER SALTS AND ACIDS ON THE LEAVES.
- 13CHAPTER IX. THE EFFECTS OF CERTAIN ALKALOID POISONS, OTHER SUBSTANCES AND VAPOURS.
- 14CHAPTER X. ON THE SENSITIVENESS OF THE LEAVES, AND ON THE LINES OF TRANSMISSION OF THE MOTOR IMPULSE.
- 15CHAPTER XI. RECAPITULATION OF THE CHIEF OBSERVATIONS ON DROSERA ROTUNDIFOLIA.
- 16CHAPTER XII. ON THE STRUCTURE AND MOVEMENTS OF SOME OTHER SPECIES OF DROSERA.
- 17CHAPTER XIII. DIONAEA MUSCIPULA.
- 18CHAPTER XIV. ALDROVANDA VESICULOSA.
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