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THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE. 



with, though very many other modifications of form 

 may be encountered, and will soon become familiar 

 to those who work much at this subject. 



With respect to the larger organisms known as 



Fis. 18. . 

 Other Early Forms of Life from Organic Infusions. 



a. Vibriones. 



b. Different kinds of simple Leptothrix. 



c. Spirilla. 



d. Mycelial filaments of an incipient Fungus (Hallier). 



e. Branched Leptotbrix or mycelial filaments (Pasteur). 



*^ these are two or many-jointed bodies, com- 

 posed of long rod-like segments bent at various angles, 

 which exhibit certain slow movements either a mere 



1 These Vibriones of organic solutions are totally different organisms 

 from the minute Nematoid worms to which the name has also been very 

 improperly applied the so-called Vibrio tritici, for instance. 



