SPORES OF BACTERIA. 



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Fig. 102.— The Mother-of- 

 Vinegar. The edge of a 

 film of zoogloea of mother- 

 of-vin?gar as it appears 

 under a high power. The 

 bajteria are seen imbedded 

 in the jelly which they 

 have secreted. 



withdraw from the wall and condense into a (usually oval) 

 mass at one end of the cell, leavino^ the rest of it empty 

 It is at this time that the cell-wall 

 is best seen. The condensed mass 

 now becomes dark and opaque, appa- 

 rently from the deposit upon itself of a 

 greatly thickened and peculiar wall; it 

 refuses to absorb stains which the origi- 

 nal cell would have taken, and becomes 

 exceedingly resistant to extremes of 

 heat, cold, and dryness (Fig. 105). To 

 these spores the Germans give the 

 excellent term Dauersporen, i.e., 



enduri7ig 

 spores^ 

 often called 



resting spores. When brought under 

 favorable conditions, these sprout 

 and, the ordinary bacterium cell 

 having been produced, growth and 

 fission proceed as before. Obviously 

 these spores are very different in 

 function from those of Pteris (p. 

 130), since they are protective 

 merely, and not rej^roductive. They 

 correspond, doubtless, to that phase 

 of animal life which is known as the 

 ''encysted" state. Another mode 

 of spore-formation in bacteria is that 

 known as the production of arthro- 

 spores^ in which a long slender cell 

 mav become constricted and detach 

 daughter-cells from one or both ends. 

 This is obviously a sjiccial case of 

 Fig. ms.-Ciiiated Bacteria. The unequal ccll-division, but if it exists 



c1?r;"^:o:''fspecfren'p"I at all (which has been a„uhted) it 

 by s. c. Keith, Jr. Drawn by J. H. clearly approaches agamogenesis 



Emerton.) 



in such forms as Pteris. 



Physiology. Income;, Metabolism, and Outgo. The bacteria 



