ACT1NIAKIA. 



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so for many clays." The trailing connecting-band is flat, thin, narrow, 

 glandular, and of the same texture as the polyp, sometimes enlarging 

 into small papillary eminences, which, as they become enlarged, be- 

 come developed into polyps. 



Fig. 82. Zoantbus socialis (Cuvier), natural size. 



MlNYADINIANS. 



The Minyadinians seem to represent among the Zoanthairia the form 

 peculiar to the Pennatuk among the Alcyonians. In the case of 



Fig. 83. Blue Minyade. Minyas caarnlea (Cuvier), natural t-ize. 



these animals, the base of the body, in place of extending itself in a 

 disk-like form, in order to grapple with the rock and other projections 



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