Show can blants see darwin in his book on movement in plants Is of opinion that many plants may be said to have sight and the investigations of other famous botanists have confirmed his opinion an indian botanist relates the following re remarkable kable incident 1 11 I was sitting in the veranda with one toot foot against a large pillar near to which grows a large kind of convolvulus its tendrils were leaning over the veranda and to my surprise I 1 noticed that they were visibly turning towards my leg I 1 remained in that position and in less than an hour the tendrils had laid themselves over my leg this was in the early morning and when at breakfast eak I 1 told my wife of the discovery we ve determined to make further experiments when we went out into the veranda the tendrils had turned their heads back to the railing ling in disgust we got a pole and leaned it against the pillar twelve inches from the nearest spray of convolvulus in ten miti mih utes they began to curve themselves in III anat direction and acted exactly as you 5 01 I 1 might fancy a very slow alow snake would w act if he wanted to reach anything the upper tendrils bent down and the side ones curved themselves till they touched the pole dole and in a few hours they twisted right around it it was on an thelcide thel the side away from the light and excepting the faculty of sight I 1 can imagine no other means by which the tendrils could be aware that the me poled pole had been placed there they had to turn away from the light to meet it and they set themselves visibly tow towards ar ds it within a few minutes of the pole 4 being placed there |