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COELENTERATA. 



more nectocalyces opposite in pairs. Cormidia without bracts. Gonophores 

 reach maturity while attached to the stem ; no free eudoxids or ersaeids. 

 Hippopodius Q. and G.; Polyphyes H. ; Vogtia, Kolliker. 



Section 2. PHYSONECTAE. PHYSOPHORA. 



Siphonanthae with a pneumatocyst and several nectocalyces (or 



bracts instead), and pal- 

 pons. Cormidia ordinate 

 or irregular. 



The Physonectae include 

 monogastric and polygastric 

 forms. 



The stem carrying the 

 cormidia is either short, 

 sometimes spread out in 

 the form of a sac (Fig. 

 125), or elongated and 

 spirally twisted (Fig. 126). 



The small, often brightly 

 coloured apical pneumato- 

 phore is without a terminal 

 opening of the pneumato- 

 cyst, though sometimes an 

 opening near its base may 

 be made out. The endo- 

 dermal space of the pneu- 

 matophore itself is usually 

 divided by a number of 

 radial septa into pouches, 

 while the invaginated pneu- 

 matocyst is divided into 

 two communicating parts 

 an upper part with a 

 chitinous lining, and a 

 lower part with a thick 

 glandular lining. The latter 



FIG. 125.Physophora Jiydrostatica. Pn pneumato- is Called the air funnel. It 



phore ; S nectocalyces arranged in a double row .-* o-lqnrl nnrl its 

 on the stem ; T palpon ; P siphon with tentacles 



Sf; NJc groups of nematocysts (cnidosacs) ; G lining secretes the gas of 



clusters of gonophores. , rpi 



the pneumatocyst. 1 he nec- 

 tocalyces (except when replaced by paddling bracts with rudimentary 



