. The essentials of botany. Botany. 106 BOTANY. Class I. Slime-Moulds {Myxomycetes). 218. The Slime-moulds are in many respects the most remarkable of all known plants. They fiear so strong a resemblance to the lowest animals (Protozoa) that they have been, time and again, placed in the animal kingdom. Fio. 44.—A p«,rt of a Slime-mould (Physarum leucopus) in its vegetative stage. Magnified 350 times. by various naturalists. When we compare them with any other plants, they are found to differ from them so widely that very little relationship can be detected. 219. A Slime-mould is a mass of nake
. The essentials of botany. Botany. 106 BOTANY. Class I. Slime-Moulds {Myxomycetes). 218. The Slime-moulds are in many respects the most remarkable of all known plants. They fiear so strong a resemblance to the lowest animals (Protozoa) that they have been, time and again, placed in the animal kingdom. Fio. 44.—A p«,rt of a Slime-mould (Physarum leucopus) in its vegetative stage. Magnified 350 times. by various naturalists. When we compare them with any other plants, they are found to differ from them so widely that very little relationship can be detected. 219. A Slime-mould is a mass of naked, shapeless proto- plasm (Fig. 44) during all the growing part of its life. In. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bessey, Charles E. (Charles Edwin), 1845-1915. New York, Holt
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