95. Paramæcium Versutum.
P. cylindraceum, postice incrassatum, utraque extremitate obtusum. Cylindrical paramæcium, the lower part thick, and both ends very obtuse.
An oblong, green, and gelatinous body, filled with molecules; the lower-part thick, the fore-part smaller, both ends obtuse, and may be seen to propagate by division. It is found in ditches.
96. Paramæcium Oviferum.
P. depressum, intus bullis ovalibus. [Plate XXV.] Fig. 25. Depressed paramæcium, with large oval molecules withinside.
A membranaceous, oval, oblong animalculum, grey and pellucid, having many oval very pellucid corpuscles, a, dispersed about the body, and many black grains towards b.
97. Paramæcium Marginatum.
P. depressum, griseum, margine duplici. [Plate XXV.] Fig. 24. Depressed paramæcium, grey, with a double margin.
This is one of the largest of the class, flat, elliptical, every part filled with molecules, except in the lower end, b, where there is a pellucid vesicle; this animalculum is surrounded by a broad double margin; when expiring, a bright spiral intestine is observable. a, the apex; b, the vesicle; c, the spiral intestine.