veil <Icf)ncd separation of sexual and asexual 
l>liascs of growth. 
Notes. 
Branch i.-Protophyta. 
Unicellular Danis oficn forniing more or less extensive gelatinous 
iibsmodia bv coalescence. 
CI.A.SS I. — MvXOOASrKES. 
(.Slime Moulds.) 
Orders. 
I. PcTilriclicii'. 2. Columcilifern- 
a. I.itliodcrmcn-. 4. Cnlotriclicjc. 
AHcxiial reproduction predominant. 
Saprophytic plants devoid of a cell w.all except in 
the spon-s. Rc|)rodiiction through amrelioid swann 
.'.|)orcs, asexual by .simple fission, or sexual (?) (Coeliel) 
I by conjugation and the formation of pla»modi.a, from 
I which asexual spores arise. 
1 Class II — ScHizofitvcE.ix 
(Tission Fungi.) 
I Orders. 
1. .MyxobacUTiace.x;. 2. Cysti|'honi-. 
•{. .N'cnuiogeniji'- 
.Asexual reproduction ])rcdoniinint. 
I Parasitic or saprophytic j«lanii sonieitmcs forming 
I gebtinous plasmodia. Reproduction wholly ase.xu.il by 
I simple division of a mother cell ; more rarely by end«i 
I genous spore fomiation. 
