CHAPTER XII. 

 MYCETOZOA OR SLIME-MOULDS. 



By 



J. H. FAULL, Ph.D. 



A COLLECTION of the fruiting bodies of these curi- 

 ous and fascinating forms of life plant, or animal, 

 or neither, according to the point of view taken has 

 been accumulating in the Herbarium of the Univer- 

 sity of Toronto, and it is from these that the fol- 

 lowing partial list is compiled. So far nothing on 

 the Slime-Moulds of Ontario has been published. 

 W. Gr. Scrimgeour, M.A., a graduate student, worked 

 over a considerable mass of material in the Univer- 

 sity Herbarium, and embodied the results of his 

 labours in a Master's thesis now on file in the 

 library. The publication of his paper was deferred 

 until a wider area of the Province had been explored. 

 It will doubtless appear in time. Several local col- 

 lectors have made contributions, and these have been 

 highly valued. Slime moulds are easily gathered 

 and require nothing more than careful handling. 

 For transporting or mailing, the pieces of substratum 

 to which they adhere should be firmly glued or sewn 

 to the bottom of a pasteboard box nothing more. 



As the number of bona fide species described 

 from the North Temperate Zone is not more than 

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