// Avoid having to set up number member (slime size).
        // How is it done for hydras??
        || new_mclass == MONS_SLIME_CREATURE

        if (mg.number == 0)
            // Slime creatures start off as only a single un-merged blob.
            menv[id].number = 1;
        else

        if (mg.number > 1)

            // Boost HP to what it would have been if it grown this big
            // by merging.

            // Boost HP to what it would have been if it had grown this
            // big by merging.

    case MONS_SLIME_CREATURE:
        // Slime creatures start off as only single un-merged blobs.
        monnumber = 1;
        break;