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CLASS: KHIZOPODA 



kept moist in a Petri dish for some days, many of these forms appear along 

 with other coprozoic Protozoa. 



Fig. 85. — A PortioiN ui- a LAitGii Plasmodium, possuily a Spkciks of Badhamia, 



WHICH WAS GROWN ON AN AGAR PlATE. (ORIGINAL.) 



A. General appearance under low magnification ( X 16). 



B. Small portion more highly magnified, showing numerous nuclei and vacuoles with 



inclusions ( x 1,000). 



5. Order: MYCETOZOA De Bary, 1859. 

 The forms included in this order are characterized by a plasmodial 

 adult phase. The plasmodium is a large sheet of multinucleated cyto- 

 plasm which exhibits peculiar streaming movements associated with the 



