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THE SUB-KINGDOM CCELENTEHATA. 



oval in form, and containing a fluid in their 

 interior. The outer wall of the sac is entire and 

 very delicate ; the inner one is much stronger, having 

 its open extremity produced into a stout, rather 

 fusiform, sheath, which terminates in a long thread, 



Fig. i. 



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Urticating organs of Ccelenterata : — a, e, and/, thread-cells of 

 Caryophyllia Smithii ; b, thread-cell of Corynactis Allmani ; c % 

 portion of the marginal canal of Willsia stellata, with peculiar 

 receptacle, containing thread-cells, arising therefrom ; d, a single 

 thread-cell of the same ; g, thread-cell of Actinia (or Bunodes) 

 crassicornis. (All magnified.) 



or 'ecthorasum.' A number of barbs or hooks are 

 sometimes disposed spirally around the sheath, 

 the ecthor^eum itself being often delicately ser- 

 rated In the ordinary condition of the thread- 



