32 ZOOLOGY. 



tion is then carried on by the help of the lip alone, which 



expands latterly until it 

 completely overlies the 

 particle. All this is done 

 quite rapidly, in a few sec- 

 onds, and then the food 

 glides quickly into the 

 depths of the body, and is 

 enveloped in a digestive 

 vacuole, whilst the lip as- 

 sumes its usual conical shape and proportions. " (Clark.) 

 All the monads have a contractile vesicle. In Motias 

 termo, Clark observes that it is " so large 

 and conspicuous that its globular form 

 may be readily seen, even through the 

 greatest diameter of the body ; and con- 

 tracts so vigorously and abruptly, at the 

 rate of six times a minute, that there 

 seems to be a quite sensible shock over 

 that side of the body in which it is em- 

 bedded." The contractile vesicle is 

 thought to represent the heart of the 

 higher animals. The reproductive organ 

 may possibly be represented in Monas 

 termo by a "very conspicuous, bright, 

 highly refracting, colorless oil-like globule 

 which is enclosed in a clear vesicle" called 

 the nucleus. This and other monads live 

 either free or attached by a slender stalk. 

 As an example of the compound or aggre- 

 gated monads may be cited Uvella, prob- 

 ably glaucoma of Ehrenberg. Other 

 forms, as Codosiga, are fixed by a stalk to 



some object (Fig. 21, C. pulcherrimus 

 m i\ T 4-v,- i iv J * n i i Fig. M.-^. Gotoriga 



Clark). In this and allied forms the body pulcherrimus. B. the 

 , , . same beginning to under- 



is surmounted by a collar or calyx out 01 go fission, two new ti.i- 



i i , -I a 11 mi r, gella appearing. C, two 



Which the tiagellum projects. The CO- nearly separate individu- 



dosiga has been observed by Clark to un- al8 ' 



dergo fission, two independent monads resulting, within the 



space of forty minutes. 



