THE POLYZOA. 



body is developed greatly in excess of the neural face. A 

 wide perivisceral cavity occupies the interval between the 

 alimentary canal and the parietes of the body, and sometimes 



FIG. 113. Plumatella repsns.A single cell more magnified : a, ectocyst; ft, endo- 

 cyst ; m. calyx at the base of the ciliated tentacnla borne by the disk or lophc- 

 phore ; k, mouth ; /, gullet ; gg, stomach ; h, intestine ; i, anus ; w, muscles; t0, 

 nervous ganglion ; 2, statoblasts ; 0, funiculus. (After Alltuan.) 



the walls of this cavity are ciliated. Very generally, the 

 gastric division of the alimentary canal is connected with 

 the parietes of the body by a sort of ligament, the funi- 

 culus, or g astro-parietal band. Circular and longitudinal mus- 

 cular fibres, which frequently exhibit distinct transverse stria- 

 tions, may be developed in the body-wall ; and there are usual- 

 ly special muscles for the retraction of the lophophore within 

 the cell, and others for the closing and opening of the oper- 

 cular apparatus, with which many species are provided. 



tli miry position of the animals. I therefore term that face of the body on 

 which the chief nervous eentros. or the pe>l;il iMiiu'lia ( when such are separately 

 distinguishable), are placed, neural, and the opposite h&nwl. 



