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29. Diphyes. 



A free-swimming colony with polymorphic (nutritive, 

 reproductive, protective, and natatory) zooids 248 



30. Porpita. 



Extreme polymorphism of zooids giving the colony the 

 character of a single physiological individual 249 



—Solid Aggregates in which Cell-Differentiation, a'"- 



COMPANIED BY CELL-FuSION, TAKES AN IMPORTANT PART iN 

 PRODUCING GREAT COMPLEXITY IN THE AdULT ORGANISM. 



31. Polygordiiis. 



A triploblastic, ca-lomate animal with metanieric seg- 

 mentation : prostomium, peristomium, metameres, and 

 anal segment : besides ecto- and endoderm there is a 

 well developed mesoderm divided into somatic and 

 splanchnic layers separated by the coelome : differenti- 

 ation of cells into fibres, &c. : muscle-plates formed as 

 cell-fusions : necessity for distributing system for supply 

 of food to parts of the body other than the enteric canal, 

 and for the removal of waste matters : — circulatory, 

 respiratory, and excretory systems : high development of 

 nervous system — brain and ventral cord, afferent and 

 efferent nerves : characteristic developmental stages — 

 oosperm, polyplast, gastrula (diploblastic), trochosphere 

 (diploblaslic with stomodaeum and protodaeum), late 

 trochosphere (triploblastic but acoelomate) 268 



32. Mosses. 



Cell-differentiation very slight, but the type necessary to 

 lead up to ferns : sclerenchyma and axial bundle : dis- 

 tributing system rendered necessary by carbon dioxide 

 being taken in by the leaves, water and mineral salt^ bv 

 the rhizoids : alternation of generations — the leafy plant 

 is the gamobium, the agamobium being represented by 

 the spore-producing sporogonium : developmental stages 

 — oosperm and polyplast, the latter becoming highly 

 differentiated to form the sporogonium 400 



33. Ferns. 



Extensive cell-differentiation : formation of fibres (elon- 

 gated cells) and vessels (cell-fusions) ; general differenti- 

 ation of tissues into epidermis, ground-parenchyma, and 

 vascular bundles : presence of true roots : the leafy plant 

 is the agamobium and produces spores from which the 

 gamobium, in the form of a small prothallus, arises : 

 developmental stages — oosperm, polyplast, and phyllula 

 (leaf- and root-bearing stage) 4,';i 



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