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THE ANATOMY OF INVERTEBRATED ANIMALS. 



way ; or by the transverse fission of the hydriform product 

 of the development of the impregnated ovum. 



In some of these (e. g., Carmarina, Polyxenia, .^Eginopsis, 

 Trachynema), the disk is similar to the nectocalyx of one of 

 the medusaids of the Sydrophora y and, like it, is provided 

 with a velum. But in the rest {Lucernaria, and the Stega- 

 nophthalmata) the disk is either devoid of a velum, or pos- 

 sesses only a rudiment of that structure, and is termed an 

 umbrella. The edges of the umbrella are divided into lobes 

 by marginal notches in which the lithocysts are lodged. 

 Moreover, in these, the mineral particles of the lithocysts are 

 numerous, and not inclosed in seperate sacs. The lithocysts 

 are often covered by hood- like processes of the umbrella, 

 whence they have been termed " covered-eyed " or Stega- 

 nophthalmata. 



Lucernaria is fixed by the aboral side of its umbrella 

 (Fig. 13, 5), by means of a longer or shorter peduncle. The 

 umbrella is divided into eight lobes, at the extremities of 

 each of which there is a group of short tentacles. The 



Fig. 18.— I. Aurelia aurita : L. the prolonged angles of the month ; £. genital cham- 

 bers : m. lithocysts. , , v .. 



II. Under view of a segment of the disk, to show the arrangement of the radiating 

 canals; the aperture of a genital chamber and the plaited genital membrane 

 showing through its ventral wall ; and a lithocyst with its protective hood (m). 



hydranth stands up in the centre of the umbrella, and its 

 cavity communicates with a central chamber, whence four 

 wide chambers pass into the lobes. These chambers are 

 separated by septa, the free central edges of which are beset 

 with slender tentacles. The reproductive organs are double 



