"tbe buffer"

Freshwater. Unicellular; lunate. Proteose agar.

Characterized by green plastids and cell walls composed of cellulose.

Cellular slime mold. Demonstrates amoeboid state, pseudoplasmodial state, and fruiting body, or sorocarp.

Water mold and fish parasite. Demonstrates sporangia and oospores. Grows on wheat seed, cucumber seed, or hemp seed in water environment. Reproduces sexually and asexually. Incubation temperature 25°C.

Cell walls made of cellulose; feeds by extending hyphae into host's tissue.

Buff-colored, coarse, detrital limestone, with cemented shell fragments.

This organism is commonly recovered from soil and water. As normal intestinal flora, it can also usually be found in sewage.