Desmids are easily found in ponds and ditches; and there are several species in Cochituate.
Naturalists formerly placed both diatoms and desmids in the animal kingdom, but now all agree that the desmids are plants, while some few still maintain that the diatoms are animals.
The desmids resemble the diatoms in the geometrical character of their forms, but they have no shell of silex, and are therefore easily destroyed.
The diatoms are found everywhere in both fresh and salt water, but the desmids live only in fresh water.
The desmids are wonderfully beautiful plants; the markings and colors are exquisite.
This is the only course possible with Desmids and Diatoms.
The process of conjugation in Desmids and Diatoms consists in the union of the endochrome of two individuals, each of which in these families is composed of a single cell.
Like the desmids they may be single or united into filaments, and not infrequently are attached by means of a delicate gelatinous stalk (Fig.
The desmids often have the power of movement, swimming or creeping slowly over the slide as we examine them, but the mechanism of these movements is still doubtful.
They resemble somewhat the desmids in their reproduction.
Evidently related to the pond scums, but differing in being for the most part strictly unicellular, are the desmids (Fig.
The desmidsinclude the most beautiful examples of unicellular plants to be met with, the cells having extremely elegant outlines.
They are at once distinguished from the desmids by their color, which is always some shade of yellowish or reddish brown.
Both diatoms and desmids may cohere together, forming more complex masses; but another creature allied to Protococcus is noted for its mode of cohesion.
The desmids (or Desmidiaceæ) are green and devoid of silex, though their protoplasm is enclosed in hard or flexible cases, often marked with beautiful and characteristic patterns.
Although some of the Desmidsexhibit a certain amount of movement they are not active like the Diatoms.
Sometimes Desmids are so numerous that they make the pond water as green as green-pea soup.
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