98 J. W. JENKINSON. 



liolopli} tic mode of uutritioii, and become for the time holozoic. 

 The paleness of the chromatophores at the period of ingestion 

 is probably to be explained on this assumption, that they then 

 become superfluous and go through a period of rest, during 

 which they are comparable to the leucoplastids of the higher 

 plants. 



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Fig. E. — An amoeba with an extraordinarily large hyaline margin (ectosarc). 

 Physodes are moving along the pseudopodia. 



The amoebae generally creep on the surface of the Sphagnum 

 and other plants (Figs. A, C, and F) ; very rarely they are seen 



