chroococcus

Updated: May 3, 2025

No. 5 represents one and two celled states of chroococcus species belong to Chroococcus minutus. The crust of the clayish earth is covered with a reddish brown covering of about half a millimeter in thickness. This covering proves to be composed, under the microscope, of cellular filaments and various shaped bodies of various composition.

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883