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FOUNDATIONS OF BOTANY 



Amoeba form (so called from one of the most interesting and 

 simplest of animals, the Amoeba, found on the surface of 



FIG. 125. A Slime Mould, (a-m, inclusive, x 540 times, n x 90 times.) 



mud and the leaves of water plants). In this condition, 

 as shown at A, t, &, the spores creep about over the sur- 

 face of the decaying vegetable material on which the 



