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SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE OVA OF TJNI0NLD.E. 



BY L. S. FRIERSON. 



When the ova of those species of Unionidae, with which I am 

 acquainted, are first noted in the marsupia, they are spherical in 

 shape, and consist of a single mass of yolk, surrounded with a clear 

 fluid, probably albumen, all confined in a spherical egg-shell mem- 

 brane. Soon after fertilization takes place, the yolk undergoes 

 segmentation, and goes through a " mulberry " stage, and finishes 

 with the familiar glochidium. Several interesting facts have been 

 noted, which may prove of interest. Some young ova of a Quadrula 

 trapezoides Lea were under observation, and being called oft' a short 

 time, on my return I noticed that some of the ova had changed their 



