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the end spindle directed foremost. The filaments proceeding 
from the reservoir are to be identified with the basic sub- 
stance of the plasmodium, the spindles and strings with the 
granular substance. The movement of the thread is ex- 
tremely slow, scarcely directly perceptible, that of the spin- 
dle much more noticeable. 
“Fn route the spindles may not be equally mutually 
remote ; here and there one becomes accelerated, and lays 
itself longitudinally on the one preceding it; this is followed 
by another, and so on. In this way originates a cluster of 
spindles which fuse together in a string, continuing its way ; 
the thread, however, keeps its own position and extension. 
We are thus here compelled to distinguish between the less 
motile basic substance and a second gliding one. Another 
interpretation that the spindles are but evlargements of the 
threads, which become moved up and down, is inadmissible, 
because the spindles, as we have seen, considerably alter 
their figure en route, coalesce, become divided, and proceed 
from the main reservoir.” 
‘Yhe author at the conclusion of his memoir on the Laby- 
rinthulez! again refers to this curious “‘ Fadenplasmodium ” 
appertaining to the unknown fungal (taken by him, he now 
mentions, from the earth of some flower-pots), and he regrets 
that he was never able to refind it for further examination 
with the fresh light and new experience derived from the 
study of the two marine forms constituting his new group 
named Labyrinthulee. At that time, as is seen, he regarded 
“‘the central balls as protoplasmic bodies, from which each 
spindle upon beginning its wandering was produced by con- 
striction. ‘That the spindles pre-exist in the central clusters 
as such, or in the form of globules, was then a fact unknown 
to him, whether it were that this differentiation in the fila- 
mentary plasmodium (Fadenplasmodium) was not really 
existent at all, or that the delicacy of the object and the 
difficulty of observation concealed from him the true state 
of facts. The filamentary plasmodium observed under a 
covering glass always perished, for at that time he had made 
no use of the ‘ moist chamber.’ ” 
There is thus pretty evidently a considerable resemblance 
in this organism, whatever it be, to that herein described. 
The author alluded in his previous memoir on the Plasmo- 
dium to this ‘‘ enigmatical”’ production in order to compare 
it with certain very similar though not seemingly at all 
identical conditions of the plasma of certain Mycetozoa,? 
1 Loe. cit., p. 308. ? Tbid., p. 405. 
