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CAN any of your readers tell me of what use to the plants are the small spots—glands I suppose—on the back of the laurel-leaf near the bottom of the rib? Sometimes there are two pairs, sometimes one; but no leaves seem to be without them. They are most apparent in the young leaves. They evidently contain something delectable to the bees, which frequent the laurels very much this year, and always fly to these spots upon the leaves; and the microscope shows a drop of liquid.
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H., J. Spots on the Cherry-laurel. Nature 8, 245 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008245a0
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