In the water is sure to be found one of the lowest forms of vegetable life--namely, the "confervoid algae.
Confervoid growths, especially those which accumulate in a kind of scum on the surface, should be obtained very quietly, without previous disturbance of the water.
Meteoric paper, a substance of confervoid origin found floating in the air, and resembling bits of coarse paper; -- so called because formerly supposed to fall from meteors.
Defn: The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.
Some of them are very slender, so as almost to be mistaken forconfervoid plants.
I was much struck this morning with the entire disappearance of a green mantle of Confervoidscum from the surface of a foul pool close to my quarters.
The young leafy buds or young stems arise from these confervoid filaments.
And if some water-snails are placed in a glass jar the inside of which is covered with confervoid growths, the curious patterns left after the action of the snails’ tongues will be found to present a very curious appearance.
The Confervoid Algæ may be conveniently spread out upon paper and preserved in the same manner, as some of the distinguishing characters are founded upon their appearance in the dry state, their adhesion to the paper, &c.
These masses under microscopic inspection are seen to be composed of the filaments and spores of a confervoid parasitic plant, the Oidium albicans, enclosing altered epithelia in various conditions.
An exudative inflammation of the interior of the mouth, due to the development upon the mucous membrane of a parasitic vegetable confervoid growth, the Oidium albicans (Robin).
Farr considered the irritation of the intestinal canal owing to a parasitic growth of a confervoid type (oscillatoria).
The division is sometimes so distinct and complete as to lead, according to Beale,[30] to their confounding with confervoid growths.
Farre[31] actually describes the formation as of a confervoid character.
The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.
Samples were obtained by "dipping" with a bucket as well as with the tow-net, and when submitted to microscopic examination it proved to be composed of multitudes of minute confervoid algae.
For instance in fine weather there is a constant lifting and floating of the confervoid algae which grow on the muddy bed of the stream.
The green confervoid growth which rapidly forms on the sides of the aquarium must not be all wiped off, for it assists greatly in keeping the water pure and healthy.
The confervoid growth is best kept down by the common water-snail, several of which should be kept in the aquarium.
I have never been troubled with confervoid growths in tanks filled with artificial water, though the same water has been in use during periods of from a few months to two years.
The winkles accomplish for the marine-tank what the fresh-water snails do for the river-tank, they scrape confervoid growths from the glass, and so help to preserve the crystalline aspect of the tank.
And of these, Snails and Periwinkles claim our respectful attention, as the most faithful, patient, and necessary scavengers of the confervoid growths, which soon obscure the marine aquarium.
This is owing to the growth of a minute confervoid vegetation, which must be kept down.
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