CHAPTER XI. 



NOVEMBER. 



charactp:kistics op^ the polyzoa— details of structure 



.ACCORDING to ALLMAN-PLUMATELLA REPENS— ITS GREAT 

 BEAUTY UNDER PROPER ILLUMINATION — ITS TENTACLES 

 AND THEIR CILIA-THE MOUTH AND ITS GUARD OR EPIS- 

 TOME— INTESTINAL TUBE-HOW IT SWALLOWED A ROTIFER, 

 AND WHAT HAPPENED — CURIOSITIES OF DIGESTION— ARE 

 THE TENTACI>ES CAPABLE OF STINGING ? -RESTING EGGS, 

 OR "STATOBLASTS"— TUBE OF PLUMATELLA-ITS MUSCULAR 

 FII3RES-PHYSI0L0GICAL IMPORTANCE OF THEIR STRUCTURE. 



