Crossword-Solution: EPISTYLIS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Floscularia cornuta--Euchlanis triquetra--Melicerta ringens--Its Powers as Brickmaker, Architect, and Mason--Mode of Viewing the Melicerta--Use of Glass Cell--Habits of Melicerta--Curious Attitudes--Leave their Tubes at Death--Carchesium--Epistylis--Their Elegant Tree Forms--A Parasytic Epistylis like the "Old Man of the Sea"--Halteria and its Leaps--Aspidisca lynceus CHAPTER VII.

The position rendered it impossible to use a higher power than about two hundred linear, but with this, and the employment of carmine, nothing like a vortex was seen during a whole evening, although a less power was sufficient to show the ciliary whirlpools made by small specimens of _Epistylis_ and _Vaginicola_, which were in the small vessel.

Floscularia cornuta--Euchlanis triquetra--Melicerta ringens--its powers as brickmaker, architect, and mason--Mode of viewing the Melicerta--Use of glass-cell--Habits of Melicerta--Curious Attitudes--Leave their tubes at death--Carchesium--Epistylis--Their elegant tree forms--A Parasitic Epistylis like the "Old Man of the Sea"--Halteria and its Leaps--Aspidisca Lynceus.

Pritchard notices three species of _Carchesium_, and eighteen of _Epistylis_;[13] some of which it is to be hoped will turn out to be only varieties.