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The microscope and its revelations (1856)

Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 · London : John Churchill · leaf 529

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ounds,in consequence of the great excess of tlie size of each segmentover that of its predecessor, as is generally the case in Cristel-laria; whilst in other instances there is so little differencebetween the successive segments, after the spiral has madetwo or three turns, that the breadth of each… … Mosalina ornata, with its pseudopodia extended. may be taken as an example of a very large group of Foramini-fera, composed of those whose plan of growth is helical orspiral, and ranged by M. DOrbigny under the designation COilPOSITE FORMS OF FORAIIINIFERA. 507 Helicostegues. In this genus, as in a…

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