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Fig. 72. 



Illustrating the Development oi Botrytis Bassiana in the Blood of Animals 



suffering from Muscardine. (Guerin-Meneville.) ( X 400.) 



a, a. Spherical and amoeboid blood-corpuscles containing large particles. 



h, h. Ovoid particles in the free state. 



c, c. Germs of Botrytis supposed to be derived from such corpuscles, 



which gradually grow {d, d) into long and simple, and subse- 

 quently (e, e) into branched, Fungus-filaments. 



counted for by mere Brownian movements. They 

 gradually increased in size; and, even two or three 

 days before the death of the sick worms or moths, many 

 of them had become so elongated as to be easily recog- 

 nisable as rudimentary fungus-filaments \ Along with 



^ In reference to the different conditions under which the same pheno- 

 mena may be witnessed, it should be remarked that the fungus can 



