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Insectivorous Plants Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Drosera Rotundifolia, or the Common Sun-dew
- Chapter 2: The Movements of the Tentacles from the Contact of Solid Bodies
- Chapter 3: Aggregation of the Protoplasm Within the Cells of the Tentacles
- Chapter 4: The Effects of Heat on the Leaves
- Chapter 5: The Effects of Non-Nitrogenous and Nitrogenous Organic Fluids on the Leaves
- Chapter 6: The Digestive Power of the Secretion of Drosera
- Chapter 7: The Effects of Salts of Ammonia
- Chapter 8: The Effects of Various Other Salts and Acids on the Leaves
- Chapter 9: The Effects of Certain Alkaloid Poisons, Other Substances and Vapours
- Chapter 10: On the Sensitiveness of the Leaves and on the Lines of Transmission of the Motor Impulse
- Chapter 11: Recapitulation of the Chief Observations on Drosera Rotundifolia
- Chapter 12: On the Structure and Movements of Some Other Species of Drosera
- Chapter 13: Dionaea Muscipula
- Chapter 14: Aldrovanda Vesiculosa
- Chapter 15: Drosophyllum – Roridula – Byblis – Glandular Hairs of Other Plants – Concluding Remarks on the Droseraceae
- Chapter 16: Pinguicula
- Chapter 17: Utricularia
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