ECHINUS — ARISTOTLE S LANTERN 



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jections of the upper wall of the lautern-coelom. Tliese projections 



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Fig. 234. — Echinus esculentus dissected in order to display Aristotle's lantern, x 2. 

 The whole upper part of the shell has been cut away. 1, Upper growing end of 

 tooth ; 2, outer forked end of one " compass " ; 3, muscle joining adjacent compasses 

 and acting as elevator of these ossicles ; 4, depressor of the compasses ; 5, lower end 

 of jaw ; 6, retractor of the whole lantern ; 7, protractor of the whole lantern ; 8, 

 auricle; 9, ampullae of the tube - feet ; 10, iiiteranibulacral plate; 11, lower part 

 of tooth ; 12, water- vascular ring ; 13, meeting-point of a j)air of epiphyses ; 14, 

 so-called Polian vesicle, really equivalent to Tiedemann's boily in an Asteroid ; 15, 

 oesophagus; 16, so-called ventral blood-vessel ; 17, genital stolon ; 18, stone-canal ; 

 19, rectum ; 20, aboral sinus. (Partly after Chadwick.) 



are the growing points of the teeth, whose lower ends pierce the 



