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RADIATES: JELLY-FISHES. 



it was formerly called, Sarsia, so named from Sars, a 

 Norwegian naturalist, who was one of the first investi- 

 gators of these curious kinds of jelly-fishes. 



Nothing can excel the delicacy of Coryne. Soft as 

 the softest jelly, almost as transparent as the dew-drop, 

 yet it performs varied and rapid movements, contracts 

 and expands its tentacles, catches and devours other 

 medusae, and other marine animals, and to all appear- 



Fig. 482. Tiaropsis. Northeast 

 coast of North America. 



Fig. 483. Campanularian. The hydro-medu- 

 sae in the bell-shaped cups drop out and be- 

 come free medusa?, similar to Fig. 482. 



Fig. 481. Tubularia. 

 Massachusetts Bay. 



m, medusae ; c<, coronal ten- 

 tacle ; p, proboscis. 



ances jdelights in life as much as higher animals do. 

 They are abundant in the spring. In the middle of 

 summer they lay their eggs and perish. But the eggs 



