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2286. They range in the middle between the vegeta- 

 tive and the encephalic animal, and are therefore a 

 totality for themselves, or a sexual animal. 



2287. There are vegetative and animal sexual parts. 



I. Vegetative Sexual Organs. 



2288. Are special developments of the intestine, ves- 

 sels and branchia?. 



a. SEXUAL ORGANS PROPER. 



2289. The proper sexual parts are a repetition of the 

 digestive system on its transition to what is animal, or to 

 the organs of sense. 



1. Female Organs. 



2290. The female parts are a floral capsule, consisting 

 of an ovary or sac, stigma and ova. All higher develop- 

 ment takes place, however, through separation of the 

 complicated organs and processes. 



2291. The three parts therefore of the gestative sac 

 or matrix separate, each part becoming self-substantially 

 perfected. The orifice elongates into a cervix or neck, 

 which is gradually rendered more distinct from the 

 matrix, and in its highest and self-substantial completion 

 is called oviduct. 



2292. The matrix elongates also at its caecal extremity 

 or fundus, as well as at its open end. The germinal 

 bodies also become self-substantial, separate gradually 

 from the fundus of the matrix, and are then indepen- 

 dent ovaria. 



2293. As in the highest animal formation they also 

 assume the animal symmetry, while at first they were 

 only single, or manifold, as in the plicated capsules of 

 Star-fishes, and therefore remained stationary at the 

 number two ; so is the ovisac prolonged into two 

 long cornua, or trumpet-like tubes, which at the com- 

 mencement, indeed, still include the ova, as in Insects 

 and Fishes, but are subsequently left entirely free. 



