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Nectocalyces horse-shoe shaped . . . Hipj^opodin.s. 



Nectocalyces concave externally, " and pro- 

 duced into five points of which the three 

 upper are much longer and stronger than 

 the two lower." Vogtia. 



Pray a, Ilippopodkis, and Vogtia have * in- 

 complete ' hydroecia, the nectocalycine groove along 

 which the coenosarc glides not forming, in these 

 genera, a closed canal. In Praya, however, the 

 two, nearly symmetrical, terminal nectocalyces have 

 their open grooves so applied to each other as to 

 form, by their apposition, a short tube (^fig. 4-, d). 



The polypifes and tentacles of the several genera 

 of Calycoph.rldce present no very striking differ- 

 ences of structure. 



Xot so, however, the hydrophyllia. Ahyla, the 

 genus most closely allied to Biphyes, is distin- 

 guished from tliat form not merely by its necto- 

 calyces, but also in having thick, facetted, hydro- 

 phyllia, the edges of which do not overlap one 

 another. In Diphyes the hydrophyllia are folia- 

 ceous, smooth externally, slightly convex, and folded 

 so that their edges freely overlap. 



In Praya, " each hydrophyllium is a thick, 

 gelatinous, and reniform body, bent upon itself, 

 rounded and solid at one extremity, and divided 

 at the other into a median thick and two lateral 

 lamellar lobes. The phyllocyst is prolonged into 

 four ca3cal processes." But in Vogtia, Hippopjo- 

 dius, and, perhaps also, Sphceroiiedes, these or- 

 gans are absent altogether {fig. 20, h). 



The reproductive bodies of the Calycophovidce 

 are always medusiform, and attached to the pe- 

 duncles of their respective polypites. In Vogtia 

 and Hippopodms the manubrium attains a large 

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