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RADIATES: JELLY-FISHES. 



it was formerly called, Sarsia, so named from Sars, a 

 Norwegian naturalist, who was one of the first investi- 

 gators of these curious kinds of jelly-fishes. 



Nothing can excel the delicacy of Coryne. Soft as 

 the softest jelly, almost as transparent as the dew-drop, 

 yet it performs varied and rapid movements, contracts 

 and expands its tentacles, catches and devours other 

 medusae, and other marine animals, and to all appear- 



y. 482. — Tiaropsis. Northeast 

 coast of North America. 



Fig. 483. — Campanularian. The hydro-medu- 

 sae in the bell-shaped cups drop out and be- 

 come free medusae, similar to Fig. 482. 



Fig. 481. — Tubularia. 

 Massachusetts Bay. 



ne, medussB ; ci, coronal ten- 

 tacle •, p, proboscis. 



ances delights in life as much as higher animals do. 

 They are abundant in the spring. In the middle of 

 summer they lay their eggs and perish. But the eggs 



