DESCRIPTION OF PLATES,
COLOURED AND PLAIN.
[FRONTISPIECE].
RADIOLARIA.
In this Plate Fig. 1 shows the elegant lattice-sphere of Rhizosphæra; Fig. 2 represents Sphærozoum, whose skeleton consists of loose spicules, arranged tangentially; Actinomma, Fig. 3, possesses three concentric lattice-spheres, joined by radiating spines; Figs. 4, 5, and 6, represent Lithomespilus, Ommatocampe, and Carpocanium; Fig. 7 represents a deep-sea form (Challengeria), whose oval case is formed of a regular, very fine-meshed, network; Fig. 8 depicts the elegant lattice-sphere of Heliosphæra; Figs. 9 and 10, Clathrocyclas and Dictyophimus.
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PROTOPHYTA. THALLOPHYTES.
Fig. 1. Peziza bicolor—2. Truffle: a. ascus of spores; b. mycelium—3. Sphæria herbarum: a. piece of dead plant, with S. herbarum natural size; b. section of same, slightly magnified; d. Ascus with spores, and paraphyses more magnified—4. Peziza pygmæa—5. Apical form of same—6. P. corpulasis: Ascus with spores and paraphyses, merely given as a further illustration of structure in Peziza—7. Yeast healthy—8. Yeast exhausted—9. Phyllactinia guttata—10. Yeast with favus spores and mycelium of fungus—11. Favus ferment, with oïdium and bacteria—12. Puccinia spores, growing in a saccharine solution—13. Aerobic bacteria—14. Spores and mycelia from eczema produced by yeast—15. Volvox globator—16. Amœboid condition of portion of volvox—17. Puccinia buxi—18. Ditto, more enlarged—(17 to 20 illustrate Ascomycetes.)—19. Æcidium grossulariæ from transverse section of leaf of currant: a. spermogones on upper surface; b. perithecia with spores—20. Phragmidium bulbosum, development of—21. Palmella parietina, trans. section through a spermogone, showing green gonidia and spermatia escaping—22. Æcidium berberida, from leaf of berberry—23. Vaucheria sessilis—24. Stephanosphæra pluvialis: a. Full-grown example, germ cells spindle-shaped with flagella; b. Resting-cell; c. division into four; d. Free-swimming ciliated young specimen; e. Amœboid condition—25. a, b, c, d, e, f and g, Development of lichen gonidia—26. Palmella stellaris (lichen), vertical section through apothecium, showing asci, spores, and paraphyses, with gonidia and filamentous medulla: a. Spermatophore with spermatia—27. Moss gonidia assuming amœboid form.
Typical forms of Protophyta; 7 to 14, modes of development or rudimentary conditions; Confervoideæ, 23; Vaucheria, Stephanosphæra, 24; Volvox, 15, &c.