HYDROIDS AND JELLY-FISHES. 



No. 36. 



bells.* On page 45 is a branch of one (No. 35), and 

 you see that the buds are not all alike, but that one 

 is longer than the others, and has no tentacles ; and 

 within you see a number of little spheres. These are 

 the buds, about to drop out as little Jelly- Fishes, f 

 somewhat different from the one I first described, but 

 equally delicate and beautiful. It has not the long 



threads hanging from it, but tenta- 

 cles surround its whole lower edge 

 like a fringe (No. 36). From the 

 eggs of this Jelly- Fish will be repro- 

 duced again the little flower-like 

 Hydroid, with the bell-shaped buds, 

 from which it was born. 

 Then we have another Hydroid forming also a little 

 shrub-like community, which bears its Jelly- Fish buds 



among the tentacles at the 

 crown or summit of each 

 individual (No. 37). The 

 Jelly- Fish born from it has a 

 strange name ; it is called the 

 hunchback, \ on account of 

 its singular, one-sided shape. 

 It is larger on one side than 

 the other, and on that side 

 it has one long tentacle 

 with buds growing upon it. 

 This again produces the 

 Hydroid from which it was born. On the next page 

 you have a little picture of it (No. 38). 



No. 35 : Campanularia. t No. 36 : Tiaropsis. 



\ No. 38 : Hypocodon* 



N"o. 37. 



