Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Excerpt from The Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club, Vol. 13: 1916-1918
To proceed. By 4 pm. The whiteness of the upper surfaces had changed to a creamy tint, or more correctly to a very light pale brown. Also the area covered by the hemispheres was contracting and at the same time rising to a higher elevation. That is to say, each aggregation of plasm-masses was growing taller and beginning to assume a somewhat conical shape (pl. 1, fig. The lower two-thirds of the plasm had become columnar; the mass immediately beneath each surface hemisphere being now at the summit of a pillar, forming as it were its capital. The pillars were milky-white, semi-transparent, and of smaller circumference than the tinted capitals which crowned them. This means that although the plasm masses of the upper third were still crowded together, there were clear spaces between the pillars which supported them. The artistic effect was strangely beautiful. Each cluster of the half-formed sporangia now seemed to be a miniature temple of surprising loveliness not easily forgotten when once seen.
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