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Parent, some hundreds of bodies, sometimes elongated, sometimes flat 
and formed like the bud of a flower. If wo add to this garland of pearls 
°t a vivid red colour, ail infinity of fine filaments, varying in thickness, 
and give fife and motion to all these parts, we have even now only 
a Ve ry slight and imperfect idea of the marvellous organism.” The 
Fig. 93. Apolemia contorta, one-third natural size (Milne Edwards). 
J' be Us in Apolemia contorta consist of a mass having the form 
ari elongated egg cut in the middle. They are arranged in a 
v °r tical series of twelves, and the axis which supports them is termi- 
by the. aerial vesicle. This axis is always arranged in a spiral 
. T ^ m > even in its greatest expansion, is of a fine rose tint, and flattened 
oj, ? form of a ribbon ; it is marked in all its length with asperities 
Jl U) bow dimples, in which the filamental appendages originate. 
