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bodies are secretions of the endocyst. But these facts speak 
just as strongly against the supposition that they are in any 
In the cell a, the polypide is still intact in its ordinary state of retraction. 
In the lodge B, the polypide is so strongly retracted that the base of the 
tentacular crown almost touches the posterior wall of the cell ; the tentacula 
exhibit some signs of commencing decomposition. In the third cell c the 
tentacular crown, together with the tentacular sheath and the cesophagus, 
have disappeared. The great retractors are still preserved, but their 
anterior point of attachment having vanished, they project freely into the 
cavity of the cell. The remains of the polypide form a bilobed bag, whose 
narrower portion consists of the cardiac portion of the decaying intestine, 
the bigger one corresponding with the ccoccum. In the last lodge p the 
retractors too have disappeared, and the remains of the polypide are trans- 
formed into a brown body filled with granular substance, and surrounded by 
a tough membrane, the only trace of its former shape being the faint bi- 
lobation it.shows. 
