MEGAZOOIDAL INDIVIDUALS 101 



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brium of the Medusa were shorter and broader, so that the 

 mouth was on a level with the rim of the bell, and if 

 the radial canals were expanded sufficiently to obliterate 

 the space, X, mentioned above, then we would have a 

 species of Sea-anemone. The expanded canals would 

 now be intermesenteric chambers communicating with the 

 oesophagus, and the contiguous walls of radial canals be 

 mesenteric plates on which the sexual organs would appear. 

 Thus, the Continuity of the Sea-anemone and of the 

 Medusa is, so to speak, a multiplication of that of the zooidal 

 colony. It is zooidal Serial Continuity transformed or 

 compressed into Lateral Continuity, a megazooid being the 

 result. But the two organisms mentioned are Individual 

 megazooids, and there remain to be considered the two 

 classes of Megazooidal Individual in which the growth-cycle 

 passes through many megazooids ; these being produced 

 discontinuously in the one case, and forming a branching 

 colony in the other. 



