HYDItOZOA. 



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cular and radiating canals disappear, their place 

 being supplied by peculiar pouch-shaped processes, 

 communicating with the digestive cavity of the 

 polypite. 



The tentacles scarcely require any special mention. 

 Usually the distal extremities of their cavities 



Fig. 24. 



Various forms of Medusidje : — a, Mquorca formosa, seen in 

 profile ; b, the same, viewed from above ; c, upper view of Willsia 

 stellata ; d, Slabberia conica ; e, portion of the marginal canal of 

 Tiaropsis Pattersonii ; /, polypite of Bougainvillea dinema ; g, 

 part of its marginal canal ; h, Steenstrupia Owenii. {a, b and d 

 are about the natural size ; the others are magnified.) 



become more or less obliterated through vacuolation 

 of the endodermal lining. In Trachynema and its 

 allies the tentacles are stiff; not contractile, as in 

 other Medusidce. 



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