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bounded, and clear and shiny bodies; these are sometimes 
comparatively evenly distributed, though without any defi- 
nite order ; at other times more or less crowded in clusters, 
but do not ever seem to extend quite through and through 
the body-mass (Figs. 1, 2, 3). In nearly all the examples I 
have seen, taken from two out of the three situations in which 
I have met with this form, immediately beneath the stratum 
of bodies just. mentioned, there occurred a more or less dense 
stratum of large and conspicuous chlorophyll-granules of a 
deep green tint, the green colouring portion forming a horse- 
shoe-shaped or crescentic body at one side, leaving an un- 
coloured portion at the other, as if enclosed in a wall, these 
mostly imparting to the specimens, at first sight, an appear- 
ance- almost like some chlorophyllaceous alga (Figs. 1, 2) ; 
commingled, however, with such examples occurred others 
comparatively poor in chlorophyll-granules, and presenting 
under a low power a yellowish grey colour, the elliptic bodies 
being predominant, whilst examples from the third locality 
showed no chlorophyll-granules at all, but abundance of the 
pale elliptic bodies (Fig. 3). Below the stratum of chloro- 
phyll-granules, when present, not however central, but 
rather to one side, yet not touching the periphery of the 
body-mass, there presents itself an elliptic bluish-grey- 
coloured granular-looking “‘ nucleus” (Fig. 1). Although 
the sometimes very densely crowded elliptic bodies and chlo- 
rophyll-granules render it difficult to discern the nucleus, 
yet, by a little patience and manipulation, the intervening 
granules becoming in the meantime altered in distribution, 
I have nearly always succeeded in gaining a view of this 
body, without the aid of re-agents, whilst their use, as will 
presently be mentioned, never fails to disclose its presence. 
It does not appear to be covered by a special membrane or 
wall. 
Having arrived so far in the descriptive building up, as it 
were, of our form, we have what, if it deed presented no 
additional character, would be simply an Amceba—a variably- 
figured sarcode body, bearing a “ nucleus,’’—for quite similar 
little elliptic, or rounded little bodies, as well as chlorophyll- 
granules, also occur in Ameebe, though I am not aware of 
the latter fact being recorded, nor would elongate pseudo- 
podia be requisite to exist, as the lobe-like expansion of many 
Ameebe are not more than alterations of outline. 
But to continue the examination of the form before us, we 
find that it can do more than alter its outline from orbicular 
to sub-triangular, or a cornered figure, or present one or 
more lobe-like projections: it can send forth short, more or 
