LUCERNARIAD^E. 



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Edwardsia (Quatrefages) = Scolanthus (Gosse). 

 Body not adherent, worm-like; mouth and ten- 

 tacles seated on a retractile column ; hinder extre- 

 mity inflated, membranous, retractile, not perforate. 



E. callimorpha. Fig. 45. 

 sphseroides. 



Peachia (Gosse). Body not adherent, sub-cylin- 

 drical, or pear-shaped, with a posterior orifice ; 

 tentacles few, short, thick, conical, set in 

 circle ; oviduct terminating in a warted knob. 

 P. hastata. Fig. 46. 

 ? chrysanthellum. 



one 





FAMILY II. LUCERNARIAD^;. 



Lucernaria (Miiller). Body bell or goblet shaped, 

 adherent or free at pleasure ; mouth quadrangular, 

 in the centre of a membranous expanded disk; 

 tentacles knobbed, clustered in groups on the pro- 

 jecting angles of the disk. 



