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THE Mycetozoa are miscroscopical organisms possessing some of the attributes of both animal and vegetable life, as commonly understood, but they are now generally referred to the vegetable kingdom. They differ from the lower fungi inasmuch as the spores give birth to swarm-cells or moving cells, instead of a mycelium. The swarmcells coalesce to form a wandering plasmodium, which ultimately develops sporangia, bearing spores inside, or sporophores, bearing spores on the outside. Further, the Mycetozoa feed on bacteria. The first edition of the late A. Lister's monograph was published in 1894, and the second edition, now before us, is a revision and aug mentation by his daughter, Gulielma Lister.
A Monograph of the Mycetozoa: a Descriptive Catalogue of the Species in the Herbarium of the British Museum.
By Arthur Lister Second edition, revised by Gulielma Lister. Pp. v + 302 + 201 plates (120 coloured). (London: printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, and sold by Longmans and Co., B. Quaritch, and Dulau and Co., Ltd., and at the British Museum (Natural History), 1911.) Price 30s.
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H., W. A Monograph of the Mycetozoa: a Descriptive Catalogue of the Species in the Herbarium of the British Museum . Nature 89, 137 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089137a0
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