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approach, perfectl y . 1 uiet until one of these 
w Jth it. It buries itself' '' S fi U n P ° n ‘ ts vict nn> and is carried along 
s,1 °rt time, multiplies to such ! 1 °^ °l, the Paramechlm > and, in a 
are tt 8 i^ ie c^:Lr times fi% of them 
° v °id or oblong inform 0 0 !°?' covered with cilia ; they are 
dentate, or surrounded ^^ actde » tlle “outh placed laterally and 
andof i 10my bristles, the band 
ine f m «, and oontractin g accord - 
» g to thereof the prey which 
d would swallow. It either 
advances to seize the prey 
which the movement of vibratde 
t? m ' e feiled *0 draw within 
he vortex of ,ts mouth, or, as 
“ the case ot the Paramecium 
, 18 sometimes obliged to seek 
tor its prey. These curious in- 
fusoria live in stagnant waters 
? d “%° ntheddbri8 °f aquatic 
Plants from which they draw 
ei , r c aef nourishment as well 
as their colour. 
with 116 BuH8a p am are animals 
vd h an oval or oblong con- 
vSn body ’ provided ^with 
5w’^ 0 nthe 
U t ' lc e, having also a large moull, 
80r t of moustache, spiraHy arranged SUT ed With cilia ‘ forming a 
Among the species belonging to tW 
' H alm m paiem (Fig. 37). re “ . , “ *""» "V te noted the Cm- 
sometimes attains the twelfth of an inch ” ? “ d I t 
tom the Mediterranean to the Baltic ’ “bounds on ever, shore 
? ™* of ‘lie Lombrie, lives between' t| A ”“5'' et the Ph- 
®«.iar bed „f tlle , nneH ^ ^ '" telmes “ d ‘be erternal 
be group of Urmlarim, belong theX^ “T? 1 ””**- To 
‘be most numerous of the Infi™. k"’’ wl “ c b are in nnmber 
™ble to the naked eve. ' ”»■ ‘he most p“' 
"am 
