ovt/ 



OVl/ 



FIG. 64. Volvox globator. 



A, the entire colony, surface view, showing the biflagellate zooids and 

 several daughter-colonies swimming freely in the interior ; the latter are 

 produced by the repeated fission of non-flagellate reproductive zooids 

 or parthenogonidia (a) 



B, the same during sexual maturity, showing spermaries from the 

 surface (spy], in profile (spy'), and after complete formation of sperms 

 (spy") : and ovaries from the surface (ovy, ovy", ovy'") and in profile 

 (ovy'). 



c, four zooids in optical section, showing cell wall, nucleus, contractile 

 vacuole, with adjacent pigment-spot, and flagella (_/?). 



D T -D 5 , stages in the formation of a colony by the repeated binary 

 fission of an asexual reproductive zooid. 



E, a ripe spermary. 



F, a single sperm, showing pigment- spot (pg) and flagella (fi). 



G, an ovary containing a single ovum surrounded by several sperms. 

 H, oosperm enclosed in its spinose cell-wall. 



(A from Geddes and Thomson, after Kirchner ; B-H after Conn.) 



