THE 
FESTUCINE VIBRIO. 
Generic Character. 
Animalcule inconfpicuous to the naked eye, firnple, 
cylindric, elongated. 
Specific Character, &c. 
Yellowilh VIBRIO, confining of gregarious fi¬ 
laments varioufly difpofed. 
Straw-fhaped VIBRIO. 
Pipe VIBRIO. 
The celebrated Muller, its firft difcoverer, informs 
us that this wonderful animalcule, or rather conge¬ 
ries of animalcules was found in fea water, appearing 
to confift of certain linear yellowifh bodies, which 
fingly reprefented a kind of filaments, but when 
difpofed into a fquare, exhibited rather the appear¬ 
ance of fmall pieces of fawduft, and Mr. Muller for 
a long time fuppofed them to be of a vegetable na¬ 
ture. At length, on the 8th of October 1781 he 
was furprifed with the fight of a long yellowifh 
thread of thefe bodies evidently extending and con¬ 
tracting itfelf; and pleafed at this novel phenomenon, 
diligently attended to its various evolutions. The 
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