. Godey's lady's book . pen-sities. The delicategreen network inclosesa number of smallercreatures like itself;you can see the dark ^spots produced by ^those nearly ready toescape. The whole iscomposed of a net-work, each filament ofwhich proceeds from a number of green each little spot come numbers of hair-like bodies, or Cilia as they are called, whichkeep constantly moving, and act as oars tomove the whole along. In course of a littletime, this ball will break asunder and set allthe little ones free, which in their turn rollalong and burst asunder to perpetuate theirspecies. This
. Godey's lady's book . pen-sities. The delicategreen network inclosesa number of smallercreatures like itself;you can see the dark ^spots produced by ^those nearly ready toescape. The whole iscomposed of a net-work, each filament ofwhich proceeds from a number of green each little spot come numbers of hair-like bodies, or Cilia as they are called, whichkeep constantly moving, and act as oars tomove the whole along. In course of a littletime, this ball will break asunder and set allthe little ones free, which in their turn rollalong and burst asunder to perpetuate theirspecies. This is called the Volvox Globator(Fig. 3), and is to be often found in ponds andditches in the spring of the year. Presently we saw one of those beautiful plant-like objects which can only be seen under themicroscope, known as Diatomacece. There arevery many species described, and those whohave a microscope cannot do better than observethem, and draw what they see on a piece ofpaper, so as to be able to recognize it AN HOUR WITH THE MICROSCOPE. 231 Fig. 4.
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