EHIZOPODA. 



foreign substance of small size, the latter is tena- 

 ciously grasped by the pseudopodia, whicb coalesce 

 around it, and thus the morsel soon becomes en- 



Fig. I. 



Am(E3A kadiosa : — a, young Amceba, with five pseudopodia 

 protruded ; b, older specimen ; c, peculiar variety of do. ; v, 

 the nucleus. 



closed in the interior of the body. There is no 

 true oral orificej and the mode in which deglu- 



