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THE EVOLUTION OF MAX. 



superficial cleavage (segmentatio superficialis, Plate III. 

 Fig. 25-30). This form is entirely unrepresented among- 

 Vertebrates. It, however, plays the most important part 



FIG. 46-49. Gastrulation of a Hen's egg. All four figures represent 

 perpendicular, half -diagrammatic sections through the middle of the thin, 

 circular tread, or germ-disc. Of the nutritive yelk () only the contiguous 

 part (perpendicularly shaded) is represented. 



FIG. 46. (A) Mulberry-germ (Moruld); b, cleavage-cells. 



FIG. 47. (B) Germ-vesicle (Blastula) ; s, cleavage-cavity ; l>, blasto- 

 derm-cells ; v:, thickened or swollen edge of the germ-disc. 



FIG. 48. (C) Germ-vesicle in the process of inversion (Blastula in. 

 raginata) ; e, exoderm ; i, entoderm ; 7;, nutritive yelk ; w, thickened edge ; 

 s, cleavage-cells. 



FIG. 49. (D) Gastrula (Discogastmla) of Chick : d, primitive intestinal 

 cavity. '^-. 



