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n. (plural of disc English)

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In the latter case the bits were dragged over the discs, so that they were well bedaubed with the secretion, and many glands thus irritated.

We shall hereafter see that solutions of these substances, when placed on the discs of leaves, do not incite inflection.

Four of these leaves were then tested by bits of meat on their discs, and three of them were found after 24 hrs.

I afterwards tested three of them by adding bits of meat to the drops which still remained on their discs, and when I examined them after 24 hrs.

Nevertheless, drops placed on the discs of eight leaves acted on them all.

But in addition to these trials, twentythree of the leaves, with drops of gum, syrup, or starch, still lying on their discs, which had produced no effect in the course of between 24 hrs.

I have indeed tried hundreds of times the state of the secretion on the discs of leaves which were inflected over various objects, and never failed to find it acid.

After three days the leaves partially reexpanded, and by this time almost all the viscid fluid on their discs was absorbed.

Some of the fluid was now removed with blottingpaper from the discs of the leaves, and minute drops of hydrochloric acid of the strength of the one part to 200 of water was added.

Small portions placed on the discs of three leaves caused their tentacles and blades to be strongly inflected within 8 hrs.

A small quantity moistened with water was placed on the discs of two leaves.

The leaves began to reexpand after four or five days, much viscid fluid being left on their discs, as if but little had been absorbed.

These leaves reexpanded after two days, and the viscid fluid left on their discs was then carefully scraped off and examined.

Judging by the eye, the softened and subsided masses of cheese, left on the discs, were very little or not at all reduced in bulk.

This is shown by weaker solutions of the phosphate acting when dropped on the discs, or applied to the glands of the exterior tentacles, or when leaves are immersed.