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proliferation at intervals in the upper wall of the ring canal ; thus a 

 projection is formed at each of these points, which constantly elongates 

 to form the tentacle. Figures 70 and 69 (Plate VII.) are longitudinal 

 sections of two later stages in the development of tentacles. The inner 

 layer, ex. (Fig. 70), becomes gradually thinner as the tentacle grows 

 older, and its cells finally become thread-like (Fig. 69, ex.). 



Figure 81 (Plate IX.) shows the arrangement of the tentacles about the 

 mouth and over the ganglion in a young polypide. The supraganglionic 

 part of the ring canal is cut tangentially just behind the epistome (can. 

 ox.'"). I have often noticed that, in polypides of about the age of that 

 of Figure 77, or older, certain of the nuclei seen in a cross section of a 

 tentacle stain more deeply than the others. These nuclei are usually 

 two or three in number on each of the lateral surfaces of the tentacles. 

 They are evident in Figure 81. I do not know what this difference in 

 staining properties signifies. Vigelius ('84, p. 38, Fig. 23) describes 

 and figures a condition of the nuclei in Flustra, as seen on cross-section, 

 which is similar to that just described. The deeply staining nuclei in 

 Flustra lie on the inner face of the tentacle, are larger than the others, 

 and belong to cells which possess no cilia. 



Nitsche ('71, p. 43) described the development of the tentacles in 

 Flustra as though they were derived exclusively from the inner layers of 

 the bud; but Repiachoff ('75 a , pp. 138, 139, '75 b , p. 152) showed that in 

 Cheilostomes both cell layers of the bud took part in their formation, 

 and he figures an early stage which is quite similar to my Figure 70. 



4. Development of the Lophophoric Nerves. — It has long been known 

 that a large nerve passes along the middle of the upper wall of each 

 lophophore arm, connecting proximally with the corresponding side of 

 the ganglion. No observations have been made, so far as I know, upon 

 the origin of this organ. Evidently there are, a priori, two possibilities. 

 Either (1) the lophophoric nerve is formed by a direct outgrowth of 

 the ganglion, or (2) it arises in place from the inner layer of the bud, 

 which, since it here forms the outer layer of the lophophoric pocket, is 

 the same as that from which the ganglion itself is constructed. By a 

 careful study of this nerve in many stages of development, and from sec- 

 tions in different directions, I have come to the conclusion that it arises 

 as an outgrowth of the walls of the ganglion, and that it penetrates 

 between the outer and inner layers of the arm. 



The facts which have led me to this conclusion are these. First, dur- 

 ing the formation of the brain, soon after its lumen is cut off from its 

 connection with the atrium, its cells begin to divide rapidly (Plate V. 



