Worms. XII. fol. PI. No. 72. 



POLYPES FORMED LIKE A CUP. 



We already got acquainted with the 

 Polypes in Vol. I. tab. 62. of our gallery. 

 They are creatures which occupy the lo- 

 west degree of the animal reign, being ran- 

 ked among the Zoophytes , or Plant- Ani- 

 mals , on account of their figure that re- 

 sembles a plant. By way of aggrandizement 

 the annexed table exhibits the Polypes of 

 the shape of a cup. Above the mainbody, 

 (fig. g.) many times aggrandized, appears an 

 elevation, (n) that is the gullet, into which 

 the Polype, by means of the pincers , (o. 0.) 

 carries the food, consisting of worms and 

 little insects. The body sticks to a large 

 stalk (fig. 8. p. 9) which the Polype extends, 

 in order to take hold of other objects, or 

 wraps up, like a serpent, (fig. 9.) being in 



act to swim. — The Polypes here described, 

 if we behold them with unarmed eyes, ap- 

 pear like little points round about the hete- 

 rogeneous body they keep close to in crowds., 

 (fig. I. 4. 6.) Through the microscope we ho- 

 wever distinguish their figured bodies, look- 

 ing like poppy -heads and forming, various 

 groups. In fig. 2. and 3. they are repre- 

 sented cleaving to a duck's -meat, (a. b„) 

 the large stalk of an older Polype being a 

 point of conjunction, (fig. 3.) In fig. 5. our 

 corpuscles adhere to the dead body of a yel- 

 low Polype, (d. d.d.) In fig. 7. they, most 

 elegantly, surround a little snail, where we 

 likewise perceive the wriggled stalks (it i.) 

 as well as the upright ones. ( h. h.) 



