THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE. 



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and appearance existed between the algoid-looking 

 filaments and those which were more obviously of a 

 mycelial nature. 



FIG. 29. 



Fungus found in a Solution containing Ammonic Tartrate and So 

 Phosphate. Transitions between small Conferva-like filaments and 

 well-developed Mycelium. ( x 600.) 



A small number of granules and particles of various 

 shapes were seen, though, as in the last solution, 

 there was nothing resembling a Bacterium. Spherules 

 which seemed to represent different 'stages in the 

 development of the fungus-spores were met with, 

 varying in size from that of an almost inappreciable 

 speck to that of the perfect spore which itself 

 varied considerably in size even at the time that it 

 began to germinate. In one of these fungus-spores 

 which was about halfgrown, the nuclear particle within 

 B b 2 



