134 INCREASE OF ANIMALCULES. 



evidently erroneous, and the organic relations lie 

 much deeper. Each globule is a hollow monadier, 

 (monadenstock), of many hundreds, nay, thousands, 

 of minute animalcules ; to be readily seen. When 

 they have attained a proper degree of development, 

 the outer skin of the parent bursts, and they 

 emerge from their imprisonment, to undergo a like 

 destiny." 



The most usual, and certainly the most extra- 

 ordinary mode, by which new animalcules are pro- 

 duced, is by the division of the animalcule itself 

 into two or more portions, each portion becoming a 

 perfect being, and again dividing in turn. In ani- 

 malcules of an elongated form, the division generally 

 takes place longitudinally, each side becoming a 

 distinct being, with all its organs complete ; but in 

 oval animalcules, the di- 



,^ O (JQ Cto (3 Q vision is transverse, first 

 beginning with a middle in- 



INCREASE or THE MONAD, dentation, which increases 

 till the separation is effected. 



Some animalcules increase both by gemmules and by 

 division, as the Convallaria, but chiefly by the latter. 

 This one resembles a bell-shaped flower, supported 

 upon a slender footstalk, by which it is attached to 

 fixed objects. This footstalk is highly contractile, 

 and winds round in a spiral manner when the 

 animal is alarmed, and thus withdraws it from 

 danger. The division takes place only in the bell, 

 which first increases in circumference, and begins 



