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THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE. 



existed, and which was fringed externally by adherent 

 and unmetamorphosed green corpuscles {b). In other 



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m 





Fig. 93. 



Transformation of a mass of Chlorococcus Corpuscles into the so-called 

 'winter-egg' oi Hydatitia serita. (x 250.) 



a. Ovoid mass of bright-green Chlorococcus corpuscles, about ^^" in 



long diameter. 



b. Such a mass after its transformation into a brown granular body, 



without distinct bounding wall. (Should have been intermediate 

 in tint between a and c.) 



c. A similar body at a later stage, when a limiting envelope has made 



its appearance, upon which villous outgrowths had been produced. 



d. Later stage, constituting the so-called ' winter-egg ' of Hydatina. 



e. Hydatina senta which is produced from such a body — almost adult. 



specimens the first tiaces of a bounding membrane 

 appeared, though such bodies were still more or less 



