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distal end contains the ripe ova, arranged in a single row, 



each enclosed in a 

 vitelline membrane and 

 containing a large nu- 

 cleus and nucleolus 

 and a number of 

 granules of food-yolk 

 *(p. 195). The eggs 

 are discharged into 

 the coelome and are 

 received into the fe- 

 male gonoducts or 

 oviducts (Fig. 82, o. d, 

 and Fig. 86) two 

 short tubes, each with 

 a wide ciliated mouth, 

 placed opposite the 

 corresponding ovary. 

 The oviduct perforates 

 the next following sep- 

 tum (i.e., that between 

 segments thirteen and 

 fourteen) to open by 

 a minute aperture on 

 the fourteenth seg- 

 ment, near the ventral 

 couple of setae. Con- 

 nected with the mouth 

 of each oviduct is j 

 a small egg-sac (Fig. 

 82, r. o, Fig. 86, e. s), 

 developed as an out- 

 growth from the same 

 into the cavity of seg- 



14 



15 



FIG. 86. Diagrammatic longitudinal section of 

 part of a Lumbricus, showing segments 

 9-15 and the contained generative organs 

 of one side : x 7. In the body-wall the cuticle 

 is indicated by a clear space, the circular 

 muscles by irregular dots, the longitudinal 

 muscles by dotted longitudinal lines, and the 

 peritoneal membrane by a thin line. 



e. s. egg-sac ; o. ovary ; sp. aperture of anterior 

 spermotheca both spermothecae are indi- 

 cated by dotted lines ; sp. s. posterior sperm- 

 sac, the anterior and middle sacs are not 

 lettered ; ss. sperm -reservoir ; t. anterior 

 spermary the posterior is not lettered ; 

 <?. ape-rture of oviduct;^, aperture of 

 spermiduct. Ihe oviduct, spermiduct, and 

 seminal funnels are indicated by thick lines. 

 (From the Cambridge Natural History, 

 after Hesse.) 



septum and extending "back 

 ment fourteen, 



