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The process of redissolution in all cases commences at the bases of the tentacles, and proceeds up them towards the glands.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles

The process of redissolution travels upwards from the bases of the tentacles to the glands, and therefore in a reversed direction to that of aggregation.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles

The process of redissolution commences at the bases of the tentacles, thence proceeding upwards to the glands; and, therefore, in a reversed direction to that of aggregation.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles

After 9 hrs. many of them had become elongated, and the surrounding fluid in the cells was slightly more coloured, showing plainly that redissolution had commenced.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles

As soon, therefore, as the aggregating action altogether ceases, redissolution naturally commences in the less strongly aggregated matter in the lowest part of the tentacle, and is there first completed.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles