132 THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE COMMON CRAYFISH. 



nucleated cells, separated from tlie cavitj' of the organ by 

 a delicate structureless membrane. The growth of these 

 cells gives rise to papillary elevations wliicli project into 

 the cavity of the ovary, and eventually become globular 



Fift. 33. — Axfnrus fnriiifirtit. — A, a lobule of the testis, showing n, acini, 

 springing from Z*, the ultimate termination of a duct (x 50). B, 

 spormatic cells ; a, with an ordinary globular nucleus n ; h, with a 

 spindle-shaped nucleus ; c, with two similar nuclei ; and d, with 

 a nucleus undergoing division (x fiOO). 



bodies attached by short stalks, and invested by the struc- 

 tureless membrane as a memhrana projnia (fig, 32, m). 

 These are the ovisacs. In the mass of cells which be- 

 comes the ovisac, one rapidly increases in size and 

 occupies the centre of the ovisac, while the others 



