JELLY FISHEb, 



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enormous number of short side-branches, like tendrils on a 

 vine. There is no pendulous stomach and mouth hanging 

 from the floating body, for the Beroe differs from the Mari- 

 golds and Stingers, and is more closely allied with the Sea- 

 Anemones. Its mouth is at the top of the globe, and its 

 digestive cavity is central. 



I have described its appear- 

 ance as seen from a boat, 

 but it must not be inferred 

 that it cannot be obtained 

 from the shore. A sharp eye 

 will see them in ports and 

 harbours when gazing from 

 low rocks or landing slips. 

 If our reader is desirous of 

 watching these, a few should 

 be entrapped into a clear 

 glass jar of sea- water, but 

 other creatures should not 

 be introduced. I find that 

 small crabs, prawns, or even 

 anemones are not to be 

 trusted with Pleurobrachia^ or 

 these will rapidly disappear. 



The creatures we have 

 brought together in this chap- 

 ter under the popular term 

 Jelly-fish, really belong to 

 very distinct groups of animal 

 life, and their developmental histories are different. Many 

 of them, in fact, are nothing more than buds from the 

 branching Zoophytes incorrectly called corallines that grow 

 from shells and stones, and of which we have had something 

 to say in a previous chapter. 



Agassiz has described a huge form of Stinger (Cyancca 



BEROE AND YOUNG. 



