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THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE. 



less protoplasmic granules, but no vacuoles. Contiguous 

 to these fresh and evidently living portions of the plant, 

 there were other parts in all stages of decay, in which 



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Fungus found in a solution of Amnionic Tartrate and Sodic 



F 



Phosphate. ( X 600.) 



the remains of the filaments were seen in the form 

 of more or less irregular rows of brownish granules 

 representing the altered protoplasmic contents of a 

 previous filament, whose walls were now often scarcely 

 visible. Subsequently the smaller white mass 

 picked out, and this was found to contain some living 

 mycelium and spores, and also a considerable patch of 



was 



decaying filaments, in 



connection with which there 



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