124. PLANARIA GRAM1NEA. 



tober, one in the larger planaria, had rose 

 towards the site of the mouth. 



A few days afterwards, this latter cir- 

 cumstance attracted farther notice ; for in 

 the smaller animal, two eggs were so close 

 to its mouth on the twenty-fifth, that I an- 

 ticipated their production from some ovi- 

 duct in its immediate vicinity ; and next 

 day one of them was almost between its 

 eyes. Description can convey but an im- 

 perfect picture of these successive changes; 

 nor can their singular appearance, their 

 force, and effect, be adequately conceived 

 by naturalists unacquainted with the sub- 

 jects of observation. But such an altera- 

 tion of position was the less to be account- 

 ed for, from not being the result of too re- 

 stricted space in the body of the planaria. 

 Various interstices separated the eggs them- 

 selves, or their clusters from each other, 

 whereby the animals seemed speckled to 

 the naked eye. 



When the truth was just about to be 

 realised, the smaller one unfortunately pe* 



