. Aspects of plant life; with special reference to the British flora. Plants. 158 PAST AND PRESENT account. This story partakes about equally of inci- dents characteristic of the life-history of the lower animals and of the lower plants. The fruiting stage and the wind dispersal of the spores recall the arrangements familiar in the Fungi, and are not matched in any section of the animal kingdom; while the creeping plasmodium, devouring food as it goes,. a. Fig. 26.—A Myxomycete (Comatricha typhoides) in Fruit. a. Natural size; h, enlarged. is entirely suggestive of animal Hfe, and is not paral
. Aspects of plant life; with special reference to the British flora. Plants. 158 PAST AND PRESENT account. This story partakes about equally of inci- dents characteristic of the life-history of the lower animals and of the lower plants. The fruiting stage and the wind dispersal of the spores recall the arrangements familiar in the Fungi, and are not matched in any section of the animal kingdom; while the creeping plasmodium, devouring food as it goes,. a. Fig. 26.—A Myxomycete (Comatricha typhoides) in Fruit. a. Natural size; h, enlarged. is entirely suggestive of animal Hfe, and is not paral- leled anywhere in the vegetable kingdom. There is no reason to look on the Mycetozoa as a group of animals which have taken on certain plant-like char- acters, any more than as a group of plants which have evolved certain animal characteristics: we appear to see in them a very ancient group which has come down to us from a time when plants and. 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 Praeger, R. Lloyd (Robert Lloyd), 1865-1953. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
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