THE JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY 



AND 



NATURAL SCIENCE : 



the journal of 

 The Postal Microscopical Society. 



APRIL, 1887. 



CrietatcUa HDucebo. 



By Richard H. Moore. 



Plates 8, 9, 10. 



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N no department of microscopy is there so much 



that is interesting as in the multitudinous forms 



of marine and fresh-water life. In one of the 



basins of the canal which flows through Bath 



I have been fortunate enough lately to capture 



specimens of Phcmatella repens and CristateUa 



imicedo, either of which would furnish abundant 



materials for an interesting paper; and in the 



following pages I venture to invite my brother 



microscopists to a consideration of the latter. While angling last 



summer, I brought to shore a root of an aquatic weed, and 



noticing round its stem a gelatinous mass I carried it home for 



Vol. VI. F 



