ANIMAL-PLANTS AND SEA-WEEDS in 



examine some of their structures and learn some- 

 thing of the strange organisms that build and 

 inhabit them, we shall see how unlike plants they 

 really are. Fig. 71 shows a small portion of a 

 few branches taken from one of those animal - 



Fig. 71. The branches of an animal-plant or zoophyte 

 (magnified slightly) 



plants slightly magnified. It is branched like a 

 plant, but if its thread-like branches are examined 

 they are seen to be notched. Moreover, these 

 notches are found to have cellular orifices at their 

 points forming tubular openings into the interior 

 of the main stem. These openings, as will be seen, 

 occur along each side of the branch ; and each 

 orifice is tenanted by a tiny living animal. Here, 

 then, we have a colony of animals; hundreds of little 



