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Insectivorous Plants

by Charles Darwin (1809–1882)

30 chapters, about 117,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. CONTENTS 200 words
2. DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS. 700 words
3. CHAPTER XI. RECAPITULATION OF THE CHIEF OBSERVATIONS ON DROSERA ROTUNDIFOLIA. 400 words
4. CHAPTER I. DROSERA ROTUNDIFOLIA, OR THE COMMON SUN-DEW. 3,200 words
5. CHAPTER II. THE MOVEMENTS OF THE TENTACLES FROM THE CONTACT OF SOLID BODIES. 5,000 words
6. CHAPTER III. AGGREGATION OF THE PROTOPLASM WITHIN THE CELLS OF THE TENTACLES. 8,300 words
7. CHAPTER IV. THE EFFECTS OF HEAT ON THE LEAVES. 3,700 words
8. CHAPTER VI. THE DIGESTIVE POWER OF THE SECRETION OF DROSERA. 9,000 words
9. CHAPTER VII. THE EFFECTS OF SALTS OF AMMONIA. 2,000 words
10. CARBONATE OF AMMONIA. 2,800 words
11. NITRATE OF AMMONIA. 2,300 words
12. PHOSPHATE OF AMMONIA. 6,300 words
13. CHAPTER VIII. THE EFFECTS OF VARIOUS OTHER SALTS AND ACIDS ON THE LEAVES. 5,400 words
14. ACIDS, MUCH DILUTED, WHICH CAUSE INFLECTION. 21,100 words
15. CHAPTER XI. RECAPITULATION OF THE CHIEF OBSERVATIONS ON DROSERA ROTUNDIFOLIA. 3,800 words
16. CHAPTER XII. ON THE STRUCTURE AND MOVEMENTS OF SOME OTHER SPECIES OF DROSERA. 2,200 words
17. CHAPTER XIII. DIONAEA MUSCIPULA. 7,800 words
18. CHAPTER XIV. ALDROVANDA VESICULOSA. 5,900 words
19. RORIDULA. 300 words
20. BYBLIS. 4,400 words
21. CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE DROSERACEÆ. 1,100 words
22. CHAPTER XVI. PINGUICULA. 7,900 words
23. PINGUICULA GRANDIFLORA. 200 words
24. PINGUICULA LUSITANICA. 700 words
25. CHAPTER XVII. UTRICULARIA. 7,700 words
26. UTRICULARIA VULGARIS. 200 words
27. UTRICULARIA MINOR. 300 words
28. CHAPTER XVIII. UTRICULARIA (continued). 3,000 words
29. GENLISEA. 1,300 words
30. CONCLUSION. 400 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Cell (biology)
• Cube
• Rhizome (philosophy)

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