The first use made of the filamentous matter, was to substitute it for the wadding used in quilted counterpanes.
Now the schizophytes certainly pass by gradations easy to the filamentous algae, and so to relationship with the plants, and the discovery of the Myxobacteriacae, brings the myxomycetes very near the vegetable kingdom if not within it.
The disposition to attach themselves to some fixed base is a curious characteristic of plants, more pronounced as we ascend the scale; but by no means lacking in many of the simplest, diatoms, filamentous algae, etc.
Pod 1° long, with linear stalk, containing many seeds separated by filamentous isthmuses.
Cotton is a filamentous down, which invests the seeds of the plant called gossypium by Linnaeus, and placed by him in the class monadelphia and order monandria, but belonging to the natural family of malvaceae.
All the puff balls of the lycopodium genus of plants, which have a fleshy or filamentous structure, yield a tinder quite ready for soaking in gunpowder water.
Mycelioid: A filamentous colony, with the radiate character of a mould (Fig.
Refraction Strong: Outline and surface of relief strongly defined; dense, not filamentous colonies.
There the filamentous vibrio dies, and disappears under the form of fine amorphous granulations deprived of virulence.
At this latter temperature, therefore, and in contact with pure air, we can maintain a culture of filamentous parasites of splenic fever, deprived of all germs.
The filamentous mass is the translucent row of cells in which these animalcules are lodged, and to which they retreat when disturbed.
From perforated warts placed without order on the outer coat, issued white filamentoussubstances variously twisted together.
They simply possess filamentous expansions, very variable in their form.
A filamentous protonema is first developed, some of the branches of which are exposed to the light and contain abundant chlorophyll, while others penetrate the substratum as brown or colourless rhizoids.
The sexual generation is always a leafy plant, which is not developed directly from the spore but is borne on a well-marked and usually filamentous protonema.
Usually the protonema is filamentousand ceases to be evident after the plants have developed.
The branched filamentous rhizoids which spring from the lower region of the stem also correspond to protonemal branches.
In this moss the filamentous protonema is capable of assimilation, but the leaves of the small plants are destitute of chlorophyll, so that they are dependent on the protonema.
The animal has very long gills of the usual filamentous type.
This order therefore is presumed to connect the true filamentous type of gill with the fully developed lamellar type.
The characteristic feature of this group of bivalves is the filamentous gill, that is, a gill with the filaments long, doubled back, and united to each other only by ciliary junctures.
The Chimaeras have similar numbers; Chimaera monstrosa has about 100 in the body and more than as many more in the filamentous tail.
This filamentous structure has been attributed to the genus Chantransia, which it greatly resembles, especially when, as is said to be the case in Batrachospermum, it bears similar monospores.
There is evidence that the dividing wall of filamentous forms is deeply pitted, as is found to be the case in red algae.
They are filamentous forms, exhibiting, however, a tendency to division in more than one plane, even in the vegetative parts.
The fine subdivision of filamentous and net-forms is similarly a provision for easy access of water and light to all parts.
In filamentous forms there is a differentiation into branches of limited and branches of unlimited growth (Sphacelaria.
In Zygnemaceae and Mesocarpaceae the zygospore, after a period of rest, germinates, to form a new filamentous colony; in Desmidiaceae its contents divide on germination, and thus give rise to two or more Desmids.
Orton was the absence of Lepidodendroid cones, and the occurrence of filamentous vegetable matter, to which the Sporangites seemed to be in some cases attached in groups.
The scaleless body is furnished with numerous slender filaments that resemble certain filamentous sea weeds, and these together with the dull colouring of the body generally enable the fish to rest unobserved on the bottom.
Some of the delicate, filamentous green algae are reproduced by another process termed conjugation.
This strange creature habitually rests on the bottom of the sea, disguised by its filamentous appendages and adaptive colouring, dangling the expanded extremity of its first dorsal filament just over its upturned cavernous mouth.
Its voracity is extreme, and it is said to lie concealed in the mud, and attract the smaller fishes within its reach by gently waving the filamentous appendages on its head.
Ligniform asbestos, or mountain-wood, is a variety presenting an irregular filamentous structure, like wood.
If one likens each nerve cell to a central telephone office, each of its filamentous prolongations to a telephone wire, one can imagine a striking analogy between the modus operandi of nervous processes and of the telephone system.
Hoffman (1953) described a filamentous bacterium, Streptomyces leidynematis Hoffman, which grows on the cuticle of L.
A filamentous bacterium growing on two nematodes (Oxyuroidea: Theleostomidae) of the cockroach.
This membrane remains later as a filamentous ring on the stem, or threads hanging to the margin of cap.
Towards the surface the ultimate branches of this filamentousnetwork give birth to globular cells, both at their summits and laterally, which attain a comparatively large size.
Ring arachnoid, like a spider's web filamentous or evanescent.
These are thread-like or filamentous prolongations of the epidermis beyond the surface of the leaf (Pl.
There is some difficulty in moistening the smaller filamentous Fungi with water, which is requisite in the determination of the arrangement of the spores upon the branches.
The filamentous pale purple frond of this sea-weed is from 6 inches to a foot or more in length, the branches being alternate and spreading.
They consist of single cells, which may be spherical, oblong or cylindrical in shape, or of filamentous or other aggregates of cells.
In some filamentous forms this "fragmentation" into multicellular pieces of equal length or nearly so is a normal phenomenon, each partial filament repeating the growth, division and fragmentation as before (cf.
In Beggiatoa, a filamentous form, peculiar, slow, oscillatory movements are to be observed, reminding us of the movements of Oscillatoria among the Cyanophyceae.
Vegetative body unicellular; spheroidal, cylindrical or spirally twisted; isolated or connected in filamentous or other growth series.
Such a behaviour is very similar to the production of zoospores which is so common in many filamentous algae.
In the filamentous forms the individual cells are often difficult to observe until reagents are applied (e.
The Schizomycetes consist of single cells, or of filamentous or other groups of cells, according as the divisions are completed at once or not.
When grown in organic infusions out of the animal body the anthrax-germ develops from micrococcus or bacillus into a long, branching, filamentous product, which in the presence of oxygen develops into spores.
This finds its counterpart in the micrococcus poisoning caused by the inoculation with the spores of common moulds (Grawitz); and in septicæmia also micrococcus and bacillus forms only are found, the filamentous never.
Apart from oxygen or when the proper nourishment of the bacillus is exhausted the protoplasmic elements within the filamentous sheath undergo granular degeneration, and finally the empty envelope disintegrates and disappears.
Many such clusters can be produced on one sclerotium, so that soon the greater part of the surface is covered by filamentous conidia-bearers with their panicles.
Towards the surface, the ultimate branches of this filamentous network give birth, both at their summits and laterally, to globular cells, which acquire a comparatively large size.
This contact seems to communicate to the vermiform body a special vital energy, which is immediately directed towards the production of a somewhat filamentous tissue, on which the hymenium is at a later period developed.
The interstices of the country between these embanked heaths were occupied by water, rocks and marshes, producing abundance of firs intermixed with some birches, all covered with black and white filamentous Lichens.
His keepers fell the trees in order to supply him with the filamentous Lichens that clothe their branches; but this kind of food does not supply the place of what is natural to him.
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