Note 10 — Chapter V

The Horned Floscules (F. cornuta) which I have found, and which bred in a glass jar, were not so large as those described by Mr. Dobie, as quoted in 'Pritchard's Infusoria.' Mr. Dobie's specimens were 1—40" when extended; mine about half that size, five-lobed, and with a long slender proboscis, standing in a wavy line outside one lobe. Mr. Dobie also describes an F. campanulata, with five flattened lobes. The 'Micrographic Dictionary' pronounces these two species "doubtfully distinct." I have three or four times met with a variety of F. ornata, in which one lobe was much enlarged and flattened, but they had no proboscis. In what I take for F. cornuta, the horn or proboscis has sometimes been a conspicuous object, and at others so fine and transparent as to be only visible in certain lights.