infusoria. 
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% a pulpy e “ as having one great hollow stomach occupied 
absorbed. ' “All m ,° , W d(dl the alimentary masses are successively 
establish the tad tw\i° S ®! vat ^ on8 > sa y s Milne Edwards, “tend to 
consists of fh-of „ " 4 ^ e festive apparatus of the ciliate Infusoria 
food often assumes the f ’ °* a f )lliU 'yngeal canal, in which the 
*th distinct waUs and °Z V*",: of one great stomach 
ae & bK “ ; fa *" 
conformation, b ° th as to its Position and 
winch are furnished with “well I " T ° f a hollow , the edges of 
ff-ts the aliment “*» ° f ^h 
bottom of a simple pit beine It th 18 & SOrt of dec °y at the 
interior part being sometime^ canablT ™° tlle and Pensile, the 
being turned inside out in the Lm ofT^ 8 to , Mlhl . e Awards, of 
nmny species it is provided with r mm P et > while in a great 
band of rigid bristles disposed in the fom of ZZ; of a 
dllatlon a nd contraction, according t ti ’° W " net ’ and snsceptible 
The esophagus, which is connec^tl l T* ° f the 
Pbenl:^ some very surprising 
employs for perpetuating the races of , . ll0 wonderful [means Nature 
' 11CCL lj y three different processes • 1 ^, mma S ’ d 'boy can he repro- 
wba after the manner of Zfa 2 P ^ or buddi »g- >«. 
m these little creatures it has ecentiv bc Z re P roducti °n J for 
differences exist. 8 Bv th- * 7 been Covered that sexual 
into two individuals — a process known^o^ d 'T ision of the animal 
fi mon - t0 2O0l °gists as fissiparism or 
Among theso three processes « *. n . , 
js the last. The singular phenomenon' of s aP ? earS best understood . 
witnessed by any one bavin" tv r * P on taneous division may 
ions enough, isolated from its imJZu ^ the creatur c 
microscope. The oblong body of the ^ cora P“ s > 1J nder the 
rr? at the middle: the^cl^n 1 wai - 800n 1,6 ^ *> 
TOtkrf. Ti,, lower S10n lecommg more imd 
the »*“ will Z £ . k Z 
