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already been noticed incidentally, but a few other points require 

 special mention in other forms. 



The schizogony is usually very similar in its characters to that 

 described above, and always lacks cyst-membranes of any kind, whether 

 round the schizont as a whole or in the form of spore-envelopes. The 



FlO. 55. 



Schizogony of Adelea ovata, A. Schn. (par Lithobius forficatus), after Siedlecki [55]. o-c, 9 

 generation ; d-f, $ generation, a, full-grown 9 schizont (macroschizont), with a large nucleus 

 (n) containing a conspicuous karyosome (ky). b, commencement of schizogony ; the nucleus 

 has divided up to form a number of daughter nuclei (d.n), each consisting of a number of 

 rods of chromatin arranged in a star-shaped manner in a clear space. The karyosome of stage 

 a has broken up into a great number of daughter karyosomes, each of which forms at first 

 the centre of one of the star -shaped daughter nuclei; but in a short time the daughter 

 karyosomes become inconspicuous, and seem to be absorbed, or to be got rid of in some way. 

 c, completion of schizogony ; the 9 schizont has broken up into a number of macromerozaites 

 ( 9 mz), implanted on a small quantity of residual protoplasm (r.p). Each 9 merozoite has 

 a chromatic nucleus (n) without a karyosome. d, full-grown <J schizont (microschizont), 

 with nucleus (n), karyosome (ky), and a number of characteristic pigment-granules (p.gr). 

 e, commencement of schizogony. The nucleus is dividing up into a number of daughter nuclei 

 (d.n), each with a conspicuous karyosome (Icy), f, completion of schizogony. The numerous 

 micromerozoites ( <J mz) have each a nucleus with a conspicuous karyosome (ky) at one pole, 

 and the protoplasm contains pigment-granules (p.gr) near the nucleus, on the side furthest 

 from the karyosome. 



term " Eimerian cyst," so frequently employed, is therefore a misnomer. 

 There is always a large amount of residuary protoplasm, and when the 

 formation of the merozoites is completed, they very frequently take on a 

 characteristic arrangement, like that of the divisions of an orange or the 

 staves of a barrel ; hence this stage is termed by French writers the 

 " corps en barillet " ; it is homologous with the " stade en rosace " of the 



