Evenings at the microscope : or, Researches among the minuter organs and forms of animal life (1884)
Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888 · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 423
contact with theplant to which it is attached. This action is instan-taneous. Presently, however, it rises, and resumes itsformer position, and then the mouth of the cell slowlyopens, and the animal again protrudes, the cilia appear-ing first, and finally the head or front part of the animal,which… … VAGI-MCOLA. goblet, standing erect, perfectly colourless; while inV. decumbens, it is slipper-shaped, attached along itssides, and of a golden-brown hue, but still quite trans-parent. Here is, fortunately, a group of the latterspecies, scattered about the leaves of the Xitella. Though, in general,…
Zoology · Microscopy
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