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THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE. 



less protoplasmic granules, but no vacuoles. Contiguous 

 to these fresh and evidently living portions of the plant, 

 there were other parts in all stages of decay, in which 



FIG. 38. 



Fungus found in a solution of Ammonic Tartrate and Sodic 

 Phosphate. ( X 600.) 



the remains of the filaments were seen in the form 

 of more or less irregular rows of brownish granules 

 representing the altered protoplasmic contents of a 

 previous filament, whose walls were now often scarcely 

 visible. Subsequently the' smaller white mass was 

 picked out, and this was found to contain some living 

 mycelium and spores, and also a considerable patch of 

 decaying filaments, in connection with which there 



