I08 PROTOZOA 



The Dolichosporidia or Sarcosporidiaceae are, in the adult 

 state, elongated sacs, often foiuul in tlie substance of the volun- 

 tary muscles, and known as " Eainey's " or " Mieseher's Tubes " ; 

 they are at first uninucleate, then multinucleate, and then break 

 up successively into uninucleate cells, the spores, in each of 

 which, V)y diAision, are formed the sickle-shaped zoospores.^ 



^ Leger and Duboscq have found that Sarcocydis tenella, a parasite common in 

 the muscles of the sheep (and rarely found in man), has a conjugation and sexual 

 process recalling that of Stylorhynchus, save that the sperms are much smaller than 

 the ova {C.R. 1902, i. p. 1148). 



