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Microscopical Essays. 

 72. Vibrio Linter. 



Vibrio ventricofo-ovatus, collo breviffimo. Ventricofe oval 

 vibrio, with a fhort neck. 



This is one of the larger animalcula, of an egg fhape, pellucid, 

 inflated, fomewhat depreffed at top ; the apex is prolonged into a 

 moveable cryftalline neck, the belly is replete with pellucid mole- 

 cules. It is not very common, but is to be found among the 

 lemnas. 



73. Vibrio Utriculus. 



Vibrio teres, antice angu flatus truncatus, poftice ventricofus. 

 Round vibrio, the fore-part narrow and truncated, the lower 

 ventricofe. 



It does not ill refemble a bottle in fhape ; the belly is replete 

 with molecular interlines, the neck bright and clear, the top 

 truncated ; in fome a pellucid point is vifible at the bottom of the 

 belly. It is in an unceafing, vehement, and vacillatory motion, 

 the neck moving from one fide to the other as far! as poffible. 



74. Vibrio Fafciola. 



Vibrio antice attenuatus, medio latiufculus, poftice aculus. 

 Vibrio with a fmall fore-part, the middle a little bigger, the hind- 

 part acute. 



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