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LIFE MOVEMENTS IN PLANTS

disappears, or is even slightly reversed. The large leaves which point high up against the sky in the morning are thus swung round in the afternoon through a vertical

Fig. 1. The Faridpur 'Praying' Palm: the upper photograph shows position in the morning; the lower position in the afternoon. The two fixed stakes are one metre in height. In front is seen erect trunk of a different Palm.

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