AMONG SIMPLE SAUCODE OIlGA^frSMS. 



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Fig. 18. 



Fig. 18. 

 Microcometes paludosa. 



A. An individual, shown in the act of obtaining 

 its food ; ^, p, pseudopodia ; jp*, a greatly extended 

 pseudopodium with food-masses passing along it 

 to the body; o, one of the orifices of the test. 

 D. Distal extremity of a pseudopodium with food- 

 particles engaged in it* B. Reproduction by fission 

 of the protoplasm within the test. C. Encysted 

 condition. 



(After Cienkowski.) 



