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nised in the articulations a particular life, and af- 

 terward distinguished by the name of Yerraes Cu- 

 curhitinae, on account of their resemblance to the 

 serds of the cucumber. 



(71) Devenamedinensi; Augusta Vindel.iQ7% 

 p. 230. 



(7^) Amnenitates academ.nVol. u^p. 85. 



(73) Observat. medic, cent. i,observ. 59. 



(74?) Observat. lib. xxvi, cap. 33. 



(75) The work cited, pi. III. fig. iv. 



(76) Program, de Taenia, Goettingiie, 17^; 

 4°. 



(77) See pi. T. fig. i. c, b. It is preserved ia 

 the Museum of the University of Pavia, where the 

 two appendages of the head, in form of fangs or 

 crotchets, are still clearly visible with the naked 

 eye. I notice these appendages, because Werner^ 

 Vermium intestinalium praesertim Taeniae hiuna- 

 nae^ etc. f. 25 asserts, that these crotchets are real 

 blisters f ampoules J situated laterally on the cen- 

 tral papilla, still called the middle canal of the 

 head. 



(7B) We follow the central papilla within which 

 the tube is concealed. See pi. I. fig. viii, C; 15 

 See Werner in the work cited, p 2Q — 31. 



(79 j See pi. I. fig. viii, abed. 



(SO) These canals are not interrupted at each 

 ring, as has been believed. If a taenia is macerat- 

 ed in a coloured fluid, the whole extent of the ca- 

 nals is coloured in proportion as the fluid has filled 

 them. 



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