Third: A number of plasmodia collect together from every side and become fused into a single body, often of considerable dimensions; from these combinations originate the large spore-receptacles which are called æthalia.
If on the one hand the Myxobacteria are certainly schizomycetes, on the other they just as certainly offer in their developmental history "phenomena closely resembling those presented by plasmodia or pseudo-plasmodia.
Sometimes the larger plasmodia pass into the resting phase by undergoing a very peculiar change of structure.
In any locality the plasmodia pass rapidly to fruit, but not infrequently a plasmodium in June will be succeeded in the same place by others of the same species, on and on, until the cold of approaching winter checks all vital phenomena.
Do not their amoeboid spores and plasmodia ally them at once to the amoeba and his congeners, to all the monad, rhizopodal world?
The species is not common in the upper Mississippi valley, but can be obtained in quantity where once it appears, as the plasmodia are profuse.
Small plasmodiamay generally be thus obtained artificially from drop-cultures.
Plasmodia of two common species, Hemitrichia clavata and H.
Young plasmodiain certain species are colorless (as in Diderma floriforme), while many have a peculiar ecru-white or creamy tint difficult to define.
As just indicated, the plasmodia follow moisture, creep from one moist substance to another, especially follow nutritive substrata.
The purple forms may be cases of arrested development, since the plasmodium appears to be in all cases purple, or at least they seem to represent those plasmodia which have failed of normal ripening.
Plasmodia vary in color in different species and at different times in the same species.
Hardly any mycologic phenomenon is more surprising than to see plasmodia rising to fructification, scores at a time, upon a surface, new and white, showing otherwise no evidence of any decomposition.
The most satisfactory studies are obtained by plasmodia carefully brought in directly from the field.
How was it that no one asked himself how it was possible that the plasmodia could enter the current of the blood from the air?
But evidently Morel's theories of the degeneration of man had made a much livelier impression on his imagination; and his leap from these remote theories to his interpretation of the plasmodia seemed an achievement of "genius.
The recent discovery of Löwit should be decisive on this point, for he demonstrated in myelogenic leukæmia the presence of forms like plasmodia within the white blood corpuscles, but was unable to find them in lymphatic leukæmia.
The nuclei and the mast cell granulations stain deep blue, malaria plasmodia light sky blue, red corpuscles and eosinophil granules a fine red.
His clinical symptoms ran on for two days with no change, and there was no difficulty in finding the plasmodia in blood-smears, which were taken twice daily.
In a case of quartan malaria, both of the preparations (cumin oil mixture and Sinkina), sent by the Association Laboratory, were without effect on the plasmodia in the blood.
These claims were supported by testimonials which usually gave no indication of a demonstration of the presence or absence of malarial plasmodia in the blood.
He had the tertian form of the disease, and plasmodia were quite numerous at the beginning.
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