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was observable the characteristic granular movements, the 
appearance and disappearance of branches and anastomoses, 
which mark the pseudopods of the true Rhizopoda ; and the 
granular movements passed from one body to the other (ng. 
31). Each of the seventeen Actinophrysan-like bodies thus 
united exhibited a homogeneous disc of 003- - 004 mm. dia- 
meter, and was separated from the neighbouring ones by as 
considerable, or, at most, two or three times as considerable 
an interval. Each body appeared to be formed of a 
thoroughly homogeneous substance throughout its entire 
substance, a consistent plasma, which perfectly resembled the 
sarcode of the Protomyxa or of the Radiolaria. There was 
just as little trace of any kind of structure or of differentia- 
tion to be observed in this slimy albuminous body as in 
Protomyxa ; any difference between a firmer cortical layer 
and a softer body-substance was completely wanting; vacuoli 
seemed to be quite absent. The very fine granules, mostly 
too fine to admit of measurement, which were scattered 
through the entirely homogeneous ground substance, were 
continually in slow motion. A few scattered larger granules 
could be easily traced on their route throughout the mass of 
the body, through the pseudopods, their twigs and anastomoses, 
and from one body to another. The sarcode-current was 
rather slow, not nearly so rapid as in Protomyxa and in 
Protogenes, but, on the other hand, not so slow as in 
Myxastrum. One could very plainly see how the larger 
granules, which had lain at the periphery, were conveyed 
along single pseudopods by the plasma-current as far as the 
points of the very fine threads ; how that they turned round 
here and ran back again, or were carried over by a lamelli- 
form anastomosis to one of the neighbouring threads. This 
thread extended by anastomosis with the thread of a neigh- 
bom ing body into the substance of the latter, so that one 
could see the granule during this transition. From this 
point the same granule could again pass to another body, 
and so on. By continued observation it soon appeared in- 
disputable that the entire coherent plasma-body consisted of 
a single large completely homogeneous sarcode -net, and that 
the seventeen separate radiating plasma-bodies were in some 
measure only larger accumulations of the sarcode mass at 
the knots of this net. The meshes of the net were poly- 
gonal, mostly five- or six-angled, of between ’001 — ‘002 mm. 
diameter, but otherwise quite irregular in form. While some 
pseudopods sent out new branches, and these formed anasto- 
moses by junction with the neighbouring threads, in other 
places larger meshes were formed by the influx of sarcode 
