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must be distinguished from vacuoles. Wiieu about to 

 reproduce the cell becomes dumb-bell shaped (fig. C) 

 after vvhicb two nuclei format opposite ends (fig. D) and 

 finally the two parts are separated (fig. E). 



A Simple Plant. — Take a single thread of the green 

 scum from a pool of water. Under the microscope, find 

 it to consist of a siring of single cells (fig. F and G). 

 The single cell, F, is afterward divided into two, and the 

 second produces a third, a fourth and fifth and so on 



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until seven are shown in G, the lower cell of which is 

 commencing to divide to form a new one. The outer 

 wall being continuous makes a thread-like object which 

 differs from the amoeba, wherein the outer wall separa- 

 ting, many separate individuals are produced. Why the 

 cells of algsB string together like a thread, when repro- 

 ducing, and those of the amoeba, in like circumstances, 

 break apart, the microscope does not reveal, neither does 

 it show why a cell made in nature is alive and one syn- 

 thetically like it, made by a chemist, does not possess 

 life. 



