Hidden beauties of nature / by Richard Kerr.

  • Kerr, Richard, -1915.
Date:
1895
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hidden beauties of nature / by Richard Kerr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A rent appears in the envelope of the full- grown volvox, and the enclosed young volvoces escape. Their cilia lash the water, and away they go, rolling and spinning like so many animated green balls, never appearing to collide with each other. In time they grow to the size of the parent volvox, become filled with tiny volvoces, burst their envelopes, and thus complete the cycle of their life. Sunshine and ciliary action may account for a great deal in the life-history of this astound- ing plant ; but there is beyond these a power which man can neither understand nor define, and that is life.