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uneven, one portion being always more bulky than the rest. The lip of the tube owes 

 its origin to this local profusion of the secretion. The rings are not necessarily com- 

 plete, indeed half-rings, commencing at the lip and dying out at the other side of 



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Tbxt-Figuee G.—Bhahdopleura luyrmani, complete colony (x 3). (Copied from Lankester, 13, plate 37 his, fig. 2.) 

 a, growing branches of the tubarixmi ; 6, the oldest portion of the colony ; c, bifurcation of a growing branch ; 

 d, completed branches, each terminating in an upright polypide-tube. 



