﻿l.IVING PLANTS 



uous and well- 

 known examples 

 are the mycetozo- 

 ans. Many spe- 

 cies of these fun- 

 g US-animals 



Fig. 26.— A niTcetozoan {Dictyrli- ( -t^ 1 ' Z 6 til 16 re) 



urn cernuum) in its resting state, pOSSeSS a ciis- 



showing four fruiting stalks attached . . 



to a piece of bark. Enlarged ten di- t 1 n C t nitrOg- 



ameters. (After Engler and Prantl. ) enOUS envclope 



about the p 1 a s m o d i u m , 

 w^hich b^^ its chemical reac- 

 tion is shown to be non- 

 protoplasmic, and it may 

 be inferred that careful ex- 

 amination will find it pres- 

 ent in most of the species, 

 and that it can be considered 

 as potential or undeveloped 

 in the others. The_v are, 

 therefore, distincth^ animal 

 in their fundamental char- 

 acteristic. Although usu- 

 ally treated in botanical 

 text-books and studied by 

 botanists, they were shown 

 by DeBary, as long ago as 



1864, to have more points stalk from above. En- 

 P j_ -J.! • 1 larged fiftT diameters. 



of agreement with animals ^_^,^^^.jj^g-^^^^p^^^„,,., 



One fruiting 



