PLANT LIFE. 



not readily absorb colouring matters, consequently in this 

 state is not easily stained. Bismarck brown, a colouring 

 matter soluble in water, if added in very small quantities, 



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Fig, I. — Af part of the naked protoplasm'of Didymium leucopus, a Myxo- 

 gasterin the motile condition during the vegetative state ; the strands of 

 protoplasm are continually changing their form, and the whole mass 

 also moves {x 300). B, a closed sporangium of another species of 

 Myxogaster, Arcyria incaniata ;. C, the same after rupture of wall 

 of sporangium p ; cp, the expanded capillitium { x 20) . (After 

 Cienkowski, from Prantl.) 



will however stain the protoplasm of living organisms 

 without in any obvious manner interfering with the usual 

 routine of life, at least for some time. Dead protoplasm. 



