The branches are flexible, black, polished and without leaves, and secrete a viscid fluid.

The glands secrete a yellowish viscid fluid, by

This is effected by drops of extremely viscid fluid surrounding the glands and by the inward movement of the tentacles.

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

Twelve hours afterwards the end with the albumen opened, which now consisted of a large drop of transparent, not acid, viscid fluid.

Non-nitrogenous fluids, if dense, cause the glands to pour forth a large supply of viscid fluid, but this is not in the least acid.

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

This is for the purpose of cleansing them from the viscid fluids they may have imbibed from the palmiste.

But these measurements obviously do not pretend to any strict accuracy; moreover, the drops of the viscid fluids were plainly larger than those of water.

30 m. After three days the leaves partially re-expanded, and by this time almost all the viscid fluid on their discs was absorbed.