. Essentials of botany. Botany; Botany. (Fig. 214) and the flagellates,^ have so many characteris- tics common to plants and animals that they are described both in botanies and zoologies, are spoken of now as plants, now as animals, and really 'belong to a borderland be- tween the animal and the plant kingdom. Flagel- lates frequently have the animal characteristic of taking particles of solid food through a funnel- like depression, and they resemble animals in their power of swimming freely about. Some of them re- semble plants in their possession of chlorophyll and power of using carbon dio
. Essentials of botany. Botany; Botany. (Fig. 214) and the flagellates,^ have so many characteris- tics common to plants and animals that they are described both in botanies and zoologies, are spoken of now as plants, now as animals, and really 'belong to a borderland be- tween the animal and the plant kingdom. Flagel- lates frequently have the animal characteristic of taking particles of solid food through a funnel- like depression, and they resemble animals in their power of swimming freely about. Some of them re- semble plants in their possession of chlorophyll and power of using carbon dioxide in photosynthesis. We cannot say that the plants of higher organiza- tion are descended from such forms as the slime- molds and the flagellates. But since these constitute a kind of link between ani- mals and plants and are of simpler structure than most other living beings, it is not improbable that all living organisms are the modified offspring of lowly forms not unlike those of Fig. 214. A more immediate ancestor 1 Bergeu and Davis' Principles of Botany, Sect. D Fig. 214. Slime-Molds. J5 (X .350-390.) A, spores, two of them germinating; B, swarm-spores; C, creeping, animal-lilce (amcebiform) condition; D, nailed mass of protoplasm (Plasmodium) produced by the union of many individuals like C. 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 Bergen, Joseph Y. (Joseph Young), 1851-1917. Boston, Ginn
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