r 



i//-^_ 



t 



S . ^ 





^Iread 



y more f. 



n 



•^ continuanctc 



■5 protoplasffi : 

 within tk i; 



neouslyafet 

 f a certain leEr 



1 examinatici: 



'd into spkrc: 

 diameter (4 1: 



thin the fJ 



ban usual, 



s, they raaf 

 ,us tints of o!i«' 



exhibit ^ 



Ltion 



of tlie 



iji. 



rface {(]' 



(P 



dn 



edc 



hloifF'' 



few P- 



«e 



ion 



o(''' 



lace r. 



*icb '=^ 



* 



'THE BEGINNINGS OF II FE. 



» r 



397 



two or three occasions bodies (about jgW' in diameter) 



which seemed to have had the same origin, and in 



Fig. 78. 



Transformations of the substance of Vaucheria. ( X 600.) 



a. Portion of small filament in which contents are individualizing them- 

 selves into amoeboid masses (diagrammatic). 



J. One of masses containing green .chlorophyll moving slowly by 



means of pseudopodia. 



c. Almost motionless amoeboid mass — with partly decolourized chlo- 



rophyll, 



d. Similar mass with numerous motionless rays. 



e. Similar body in later stage as an active and wholly decolourized 



Actinophrys. 

 /. Another mass after retraction of its ray assumes the habit and move- 

 ments of an Amoeba. 



which the chlorophyll was still unchanged, were seen 



within the filament ; 



moving about pretty actively 

 though it was not ascertained 



whether these move- 



\ 



