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Fig. 77. Dl-DYM'-I-UM- SQUA-?lU-LO'-SUM. A Slime MOULD. The Slime 

 MouMs while tViey are feeding and growing, creep about over decaying vege- 

 tation in slieltered plact-s. The slitne or jeliy-like subsitance of whicli they are 

 composed may be yellowish, or occasionally of a deep yellow or bright red 

 color. Finally the soft matter i protoplasm) shapes itself into little bodies as 

 shown in the illustration : other species of course have difft-rent forms. The 

 .spares are formed within the ffldbons receptacles— and were not this repro- 

 ductive stage in some respects like that of plants, these organisms would un- 

 hesitatingly be excluded from the vegetalile kingdom. Other species will be 

 shown in the future, and more can be said in regard to these peculiar 'plants.' 

 The above specimens were collected on Cedar Point, near Sandusky, Ohio. 



