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the coiling up of the stalk ; the rolling in of the 

 disc. The rapidity of these movements. 



y. The mode of re-expansion ; the stalk straightens 

 first ; then the peristome is everted ; finally the 

 disc and its cilia are protruded. 



4. Stain with iodine or magenta ; the cuticle uncoloured 

 the rest stained; the nucleus especially becomes 

 deeply coloured. 



5. Treat with acetic acid ; the contents soon disappear 

 (except perhaps some swallowed bodies) the cuticle 

 later or not at all. 



6. Look for the following in various specimens 



a. Multiplication by fission, early stage ; a bell par- 

 tially divided into two by a vertical fissure start- 

 ing from the disc. 



/8. The same, late stage ; two complete bells on one 



stalk ; the result of completion of the fission. 



The development of a basal circlet of cilia by 



one or both of these bells, 

 y. Free swimming unstalked bells (detached bells 



from ft). 

 8. Conjugation; the attachment of a small free 



swimming bell to the side of a stalked one. 

 e. Encystation ; the body contracted into a ball 



and surrounded by a thickened structureless 



layer, the contractile vesicle being persistently 



dilated. 



B. Other forms closely allied to Vorticella which may be 

 met with, and which will do nearly as well for exami- 

 nation, are ; 



