Sarcina. 2 1 



In the stomach of healthy and diseased persons, and 

 the higher animals; also occurring in other parts of the 

 body, and according to Dr. Ferrier in the blood {Quart. 

 Jour. Micr. Sci., xiii. 163). 



26. S. urinae, Welcker. 



Merismopedia urina, Rabenhorst. 



Cells verj' small, i '2 /a in diameter, united in families 

 of from 8 to 64; eight-celled families 2-3 /n, 64-celled 4'S /* 

 in diameter. 



In the bladder. 



27. S. litoralis (Oersted). 



Erythroconis litoralis, Oersted. 



Merismopedia litoralis, Rabenhorst. 

 Cells round, or, before division, oval, 1*2 /*, seldom 2 

 or more [x, in diameter, united into 

 families of four, six, or eight, etc., 

 which in their turn form larger 

 colonies (as many as 64 groups of 

 four in a colony). Plasma colourless, 

 but in each cell from one to four red _. „ . ,.^ ,. 



Fig. II. — Ciurczna -itioralis, 

 granules of sulphur. (Fig. 11.) x 660 (after Warming). 



In putrefying sea-water. 



28. S. Reitenbachii (Caspary). 



Merismopedium Reitenbachii, Caspary. 

 Cells round, before division ovate-elliptical, about i'5 

 -2-5 /A in diameter, at the time of division prolonged to 

 4 /x; seldom single or in twos and threes, for the most 

 part united in fours or eights, less often in sixteens or 

 more. Cell-walls colourless, lined with a rose-red layer of 

 plasma. 



