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are equal and similar (Isopolar), iu the other of which they are different (AUopolar) ; in the 

 former the two halves of the body, which are separated by the equatorial plane (or the 

 largest transverse plane, perpendicular to the jjrincipal axis), are equal, in the latter unequal. 

 Among the isopolar uniaxial ground-forms (]\lonaxonia isopola) may be mentioned the 

 ellipsoidal, spheroidal, lenticular, &c. ; to the allopolar uniaxial forms (Monaxonia allopola) 

 belong the conical, hemispherical, ovoid, &c. In the same way the pyramidal ground- 

 forms with crossed axes are divisible into two groups, according as the two poles of the 

 principal axis are equal or not. The ground-form of the former is the double pyramid, 

 that of the latter the single pyramid. Both the double and the single pyramids may 

 again be subdivided, each into two important lesser groups, the regular and the amphi- 

 thect. In the first division the equatorial plane of the double and the basal plane of 

 the single pyramid is a regular polygon (square, &c.), whilst in the other division it is 

 an elongated or amphithect polygon (rhombus, &c.) ; the crossed axes are equal in the 

 former, unequal in the latter. (See Gener. Morphol., Bd. i. pp. 416-494.) 



21. The Centroplana or Zygotypic G-round- Forms. — The third principal group of 

 ground-forms includes those which are bilaterally symmetrical in the ordinary sense, or 

 zeugitic or zygotypic ; the natural centre of their body is a plane. These forms are the 

 only ones in which the distinction between right and left is possible, since their body is 

 divided by the median plane (planum sagittale) into two symmetrical halves (right and 

 left). In all these zeugites the position of every part is determined by three axes 

 perpendicular to each other, and of these three dimensive axes two are allopolar, one is 

 isopolar. The two unlike poles of the principal (or longitudinal) axis are the oral and 

 aboral, the two unlike poles of the sagittal (or vertical) axis are the dorsal and ventral; 

 the two similar poles of the frontal (or transverse) axis, however, are the right and left. 

 This important group of zeugitic or bilateral forms may also be divided into two clearly 

 distinct lesser groups, the Amphipleura and the Zygopleura. In the Amphipleura (or 

 bilaterally radial ground-forms) the "radial two-sided" body is produced by modification 

 of a regular pyramid (as Spatcmgus from Echinus), and hence is composed of several (not 

 less than three) antimeres. In the Zygopleura (or bilaterally symmetrical ground-forms) 

 on the other hand, the bodies consist of two antimeres (as in all the higher animals, 

 Vertebrata, Arthropoda, &c.). (See Gener. Morphol, Bd. i. pp. 495-527.) 



22. The Acentrica or Atypic Ground-Forms. — Among the acentrica or anaxonia are 

 included aU those ground-forms which are absolutely irregular, and in which neither a 

 definite centre nor constant axes can be distinguished {e.g., most Sponges). These quite 

 irregular ground-forms are very rare among the Radiolaria, but nevertheless there may be 

 referred to them the amoeboid central capsule of some Colloid ea {CoUodastruin, p. 27, 

 PL 3, figs. 4, 5) among the Spumellaria, the irregular shells of many CoUosphserida 



