aga VORTICELLA. 



Animalculum ortu & mutiitione llatus primi perquam 



variabih. 



Sphxra pellucidic gelarinorx 4 — 24 linearum dinmerro 

 hyalino - viridcs, ociilo ahcjuantum armnto radiis rubtihnTmis, 

 prxlertim in peripheria, {aturate viridibus quali hirfutx in aqua 

 paUillri natantcs. Ope microfcopii radii lineolx abrupt^ con- 

 fpiciuntnr, in peripheria reric rriphci & qivadrupHci, quafi to- 

 tidcm fpicula , juxta lcle ordinntre, in dilco \ero difpalat:r & 

 plcrumque contraclar, motum vero e:-;fcrentes vera animalcuia. 

 Dum gelatina conftricta funt, pleraque habcnt corpus viridc te- 

 res, elongatum, antice obtufum, poftice acuminatum, ac pas- 

 fim anticam partem ira in pofticjm contrahunt, ut corpus cras- 

 fius quideiB & triplo brevius evadat, mox vero lcnte producunr; 

 ieRlim carcere fecedunt, antica & poftica in formam cyhndri- 

 cam elongata triplo minorem contrahunt, ciHa rotatona exfe- 

 runt, ac priftina omnino neglcfla, hac nova figura felHve cir- 

 cumnatanr. Corpus jam conitanter cyHndraceum granuhs fphne- 

 ricis viridibus (in motu animahs hxc mobiha videntur) reple- 

 tum , antice, margine ahquantum deflexo, centro fipe in pa- 

 pillulam acuminatam produftum. 



Mutu vacillatorio pofticam & anticam pro lubitu corripit) 

 utraque contratla ovata confpicitur. 



Ex halone corpus ambiente totum ciliis cinftum fufpiccr, 



A /■'^ort. Po/ymorpba i\g\irA hi motu conftante, a Truit- 

 catellii maigine deflexo ac colore, a Niifuta corpore graciliore 

 &c, fat divcrfa. 



Sub initium Scptembrls plurimx fphxrtc, eadem in palu- 

 de repertac, animalculis elongatis phalangis inftar difpolitis rc- 

 pletoeerant, hxc dchinc fociciatcm nondum interrupcrunt. 



In aqua paluftri Diohachicvft fphxras gelatinolas pluri- 

 mas fub fincm Augufti reperit R. W. ^ffcns-, co tcmporc me- 

 us, ut dicunt, ammanucnlis, animalcula iple detc.xi. Gela- 

 tina, e.xacle mi Gjri/u, aur proles Limacian-, quosdam dics 



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