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Excerpt from A Monograph of the Myxogastres Respecting the nature and affinities of the Myxogastres, we find the following in Professor De Bary's last work on the subject I have, since the year 1858, placed the Myxomycetes under the name of Mycetozoa outside the limits of the vegetable kingdom, and I still consider this to be their true position.2 This statement has been generally interpreted, and probably correctly, as signifying that De Bary looked upon his Mycetozoa as animals; but it would perhaps have been wiser to have stated this belief point - blank, and to have chosen some other word than Mycetozoa to designate the group, thereby dispelling any lingering of doubt as to his meaning. The difficulty is not lessened by De Bary's introductory paragraph on the Mycetozoa, which is as follows The name Mycetozoa is here applied to a group of fungus-like organisms amounting at the present time to nearly three hundred species, the larger number of which are contained in the division Myxomycetes or slime-fungi (the Myxogastres of Fries), together with the smaller one distin guished by Van Tieghem under the name of Acrasieae. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.