CHAPTER XII. 
MYCETOZOA OR SLIME-MOULDS. 
By 
J. H. FAULL, Ph.D. 
A cotiection of the fruiting bodies of these curi- 
ous and fascinating forms of life—plant, or animal, 
or neither, according to the point of view taken—has 
been accumulating in the Herbarium of the Univer- 
sity of Toronto, and it is from these that the fol- 
lowing partial list is compiled. So far nothing on 
the Slime-Moulds of Ontario has been published. 
W. G. Scrimgeour, M.A., a graduate student, worked 
over a considerable mass of material in the Univer- 
sity Herbarium, and embodied the results of his 
labours in a Master’s thesis—now on file in the 
library. The publication of his paper was deferred 
until a wider area of the Province had been explored. 
It will doubtless appear in time. Several local col- 
lectors have made contributions, and these have been 
highly valued. Slime moulds are easily gathered 
and require nothing more than careful handling. 
For transporting or mailing, the pieces of substratum 
to which they adhere should be firmly glued or sewn 
to the bottom of a pasteboard box—nothing more. 
As the number of bona fide species described 
from the North Temperate Zone is not more than 
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