THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE. 



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into one of the simpler fungi, with its various kinds of 

 reproductive units — conidia or spores — is most simple. 



Fig. 49. 



Development of Tondce found in Cider, (Pouchet.) 



Illustrates the irregular manner in which Segmentation of the Filaments 

 occurs, their irregularities in size, and the separation of ' conidia.' 



and has been well described by M. TrecuP. The means 

 he adopted to observe the development, also tend to 

 substantiate what I have already said with reference to 

 the cause of continuous as opposed to discontinuous 

 growth, and the association of the latter process with 

 higher degrees of fermentability. In order to bring 



^ ' Conidia ' is the name applied to the simplest kind of spore — to 

 those which are separated from any portion of the mycelium by a simple 

 process of strangulation (fission), as ia Fig. 49. 



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