PLATE X.^ 



Figure 



ASCOPODARIA. — AlCYONIDIUM. 



1. — Ascopodaria fruticosa, group of young buds at the 

 end of a branch, also showing the transparent 

 envelope of a barrel which has been partially 

 torn off, and the cup-like sockets in which the 

 peduncles are seated, 



„ 2. — A single bud, showing the bilateral arrangement of 



the tentacles, ..... 



„ 3, 4, 5. — After sketches of the same, taken when fresh by the 

 late Sir C. Wyville Thomson, 



„ 6. — Ascopodaria discreta, a single polypide, 



„ 7. — Two buds at the end of a stolon, 



„ 8. — A single zocBcium and polypide, 



,, 9. — A single zooecium, also showing stolon and buds, 



„ 10. — A group of zocecia, . . . . 



„ 11. — Stolon with bud and the base of two peduncles, 



„ 12. — The spirally ringed segment by which the polypide 

 , is attached to the pedicel, 



,, 13. — Alcyonidium jiustroides, 



„ 14. — Portion of the zoarium, with scattered ova and 

 " brown bodies," .... 



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1 Several references used on this plate -.—i, intestine ; I, liver cells ; ce, oesophagus ; om, ovarian masses ; r, rectum ; 

 s, stomach; t, tentacles. 



