FORAMINIFERA. 
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st ®ce, somethnes *^“ a ® inife » are formed of a gelatinous sub- 
w focb can b l f| U * ound > sometimes divided into segments, 
a spiral form or rolS 2 nd ° r «P ^ 
modelled up on the sesmmVf 11™’ 2 * baU ' A testaceous envelope, 
and protects the bodv in 11 °+ ° WS ^ vanous modifications of form, 
last segment of one or mnri ^ . PMtS - From the extremity of the 
P-es, issue oerlS wS ^ « of the numerous 
which are divided and subaf' VU " more or Iesa numerous, 
spreading branches of , tree The, ° ,er I' 1 ""' ' ,hole lm S lb . Uko toe 
oili force enoiwh to',],,.. ” 5 ' “ “““ h toemselves to external 
famed of ,Z° ? r ° 6re8£i0 ” ° f «”"“»!■ 
*Jto 1 * mere expand “??' “* y *» 
t0 the conditions of the ambient medL f ^ lGUgth ac<;ordi "g 
Ve ry variable positions : sometimes they fo h6 filaments haYe also 
band, i SS ui ng from a single and retractile 
selves across from numerous litH " ’ metlmes they project them- 
tPo last segment of the animal. TheTe n^ ^ ^ Wbicb «*«* 
name to the creatures under consideration ? the 
which constitute in their form, 
mea ^ ° f the Foi ' a minifera With 
means, says M. Predol “tw iv ’ 18 P r °bably hy this 
J* prey. Iaitn„ttt hy ^ em tt ^t h C ^~ “ 
their size and slight tlJr form ^ tll(:se be >ngs, however small 
smallest, the weakest, and the mostm^ 1 ^ 8 flesh ‘ eaters? The 
rf • si-s: 
owe to Dujardm' TwTJSSSiToWed 01 arms we 
empted to climb up the walls or sides of 1 1 2 W ^ en a miliola a t~ 
°re> 011 instant, and, at the expense n * C ° U d lm P rovise > as it 
; iSK ; r, al foot, which stretched itself out 5 * °2 Substance > a Pro- 
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