WORMS 



FAMILY PHYLLODOCIDJE 



These animals are commonly 

 known as "paddle-worms," on 

 account of having leaf -like cirri, 

 which they use in locomotion. 

 The head is long and bears four 

 pairs of short and four pairs of 

 long tentacles. The body is long 

 and depressed, sometimes two 

 feet in length, usually eight to 

 twelve inches long. The general 

 color is bright green and irides- 

 cent. Found in tide-pools. Speci- 

 mens are often found by digging 

 in sandy mud, or they may be 

 obtained by placing old shells 

 and other material in a dish of 

 sea-water. When the water be- 

 comes a little stale, the worms of 

 this and otherf amilies make their 

 way to the sides of the dish, where 

 they secrete a colorless slime 



Which holds mud Or any light / t P hrodUe " natural *l.e : e neuropodlal 



& chaetse; p, palps; 1, iridescent bristles; 2, stiff 



matter that it may come in con- fht ; s, feitm? bristles of notopodmm. 

 tact with. In this condition, when lifted or disturbed, they crawl 

 rapidly out of the slime, and show to good advantage their elongate 

 body, which is often beautifully colored. 



GENUS Phyllodoce 



P. gracilis. Three inches or more long and one sixteenth of an inch 

 wide ; large proboscis, with twelve longitudinal rows of prominent pro- 



