Growing, as Eozoon may be supposed to have done, on the floor of the ocean, and covering wide patches with more or less irregular masses, it must have thrown up from its whole surface its pseudopods to seize whatever floating particles of food the waters carried over it There is also reason to believe, from the outline of certain specimens, that it often grew upward in inverted, conical, or club-shaped forms, and that only the broader patches were penetrated by the tubes or oscula already mentioned, admitting the sea-water deeply into the substance of the masses. In this way its growth might be rapid and continuous; but it does not seem to have possessed the power of growing indefinitely by new and living layers covering those that had died, in the manner of some corals. Its life seems to have had a definite termination, and when that was reached, an entirely new colony had to be commenced. In this it had more affinity with the Foraminifera, as we now know them, than with the corals, though practically it had the same power with the coral polyps of accumulating limestone in the sea-bottom, a power indeed still possessed by its foraminiferal successors. In the case of coral limestones, we know that a large proportion of these consist, not of continuous reefs, but of fragments of coral mixed with other calcareous organisms, spread usually by waves and currents in continuous beds over the sea-bottom. In like manner we find in the limestones containing Eozoon, layers of fragmental matter which shows in places the characteristic structures, and which evidently represents the debris swept from the Eozoon masses and reefs by the action of the waves. With this fragmental matter small rounded organisms to be noticed in the sequel occur; and while they may be distinct animals resembling the smaller modern species, they may also be the fry of Eozoon, or small portions of its acervuline upper surface floated off in a living state, and possibly capable of living independently and of founding new colonies. [Illustration: Fig. 47.--_Slice of Limestone (magnified),_ (_a_) Fragment of Eozoon with canals, (_b_) Fragments of granular calcite, probably organic, (_c_) Structureless calcite with cleavage lines (Côte St. Pierre).]