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Our brooks also contain more minute creatures, called Monads 

 (fig. 985). They are chiefly found in stagnant corners in the lesser 

 streamlets. 



We have likewise the Siagontherium tenue (fig. 986) and Bursaria 

 vernalis (fig. 987), both of which were considered to be polygrastic 

 animals. Very little is known either of their struc- 

 ture or natural history, though we may conceal our 



FIG. 986. Siagon- 

 therium tenue, 

 magnified. 



FIG. 985. Monads, 

 magnified. 



FIG. 987. Burs^ria vernalis, 

 magnified. 



ignorance by the use of long and repulsive names. 



A very active animalcule called Stylonichia (fig. 988), magnified. 



which moves about in all directions, lives in the stagnant parts of our 



streams. 



Amongst other infusorial animalcules, ^SJP\ 



we have an interesting creature living 

 in a kind of pot, which is called the 



FIG. 989. Vaginicola, 

 magnified. 



FIG. 990. Vorticella, 

 magnified. 



FIG. 991.- Melicerta ringens, 

 magnified. 



Vaginicola (fig. 989) ; but of all this family 



none is more interesting and beautiful 



than the Vorticella (fig. 990), which, as 



seen under the microscope, comes up like a sky-rocket to seize on 



its prey. It lives attached to the leaves of plants in the river. 



