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surrounding medium and assume feathery shapes (Fig. 49), 

 which often bear so close a resemblance to certain plants 



FIG. 49. Lamp-shells or Brachiopods (on left of figure), fossil and living, and (on 

 right) plant-like colonies of sea-mats. 



that they are frequently preserved as such. What their 

 exact position is in the animal scale it is somewhat difficult 

 to say ; but judging especially from their development, it 

 appears probable that they are distant relatives of the seg- 

 mented worms. 



