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Vegetable secretions and the means by which by are effected by Kate L. Hudson, 1888

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7. The mode of the formation of acids in plants, is not an easy one to discover, and it has been a subject of considerable difficulty. Liebig's theory was that the highly oxidized acids were formed as the first products of constructive metabolism from Carbo di Oxide and water, in the cells containing chlorophyll. But this does not satisfactorily account for the presence of [per?] formic acids, nor for the presence of acids in Fungi. Then we are led to consider the formation rather [over?] of destructive than of constructive metabolism.
 
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