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Ascopodaria. — Alcyonidium. 
Figure 
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 
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peduncles are seated, .... 
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2. — A single bud, showing the bilateral arrangement of 
the tentacles, ..... 
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4, 5. — After sketches of the same, taken when fresh by the 
late Sir C. Wyville Thomson, 
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6. — Ascopodaria discreta, a single polypide, 
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7. — Two buds at the end of a stolon, 
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8. — A single zooecium and polypide, 
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9. — A single zooecium, also showing stolon and buds, 
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10. — A group of zooecia, ..... 
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11. — Stolon with bud and the base of two peduncles, 
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12. — The spirally ringed segment by which the polypide 
is attached to the pedicel, 
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13. — Alcyonidium fiustroides, .... 
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14. — Portion of the zoarium, with scattered ova and 
“ brown bodies,” .... 
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1 Several references used on this plate : — i, intestine ; l, liver cells ; m, oesophagus ; om, ovarian masses ; r, rectum ; 
s, stomach ; t, tentacles. 
