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I have never seen, unless they are the white threads, w ]'! l t | J 
Sbarpey and Jones also describe as oviducts, but ,',^ e 
appear to have no connection with such a function. 1 ^ 
white filaments are convoluted, of equal thickness, s®® ’ 
smooth, and fibrous ; if hollow, the cavity must be exceeding 
small, for 1 have never been able to detect it. They a j 
clothed with the peritoneum and consequently are fasten® 
or held by a mesentery similar to the ovaries. Their 
tions are unknown. They are frequently ejected through 1 
stomach and frequently are forced through the sides ol 
animal, as may be witnessed in the A. dianthus. The ten ‘j 
cula are tubular and tapering towards the extremity ; a ^ 
the tube is terminated by an orifice, which appears to 
guarded by a circular muscle to prevent the ejection of * 
water when pressed on by the motion of the animal. » 
whole length of the tentacula is however pervaded by circid 
fibres, and hence the reason they are sometimes observed , 
contract more in one part than another. The orifices 
these organs open into the cavity which contains the c° 
volnted ovaries, and hence the water which distends t ^ 
polype, passes readily from one part of the animal to anotb®^ 
In the Anthea cereus, these organs are very liable to 
formations both of deficiency and excess. 1 boy appear ^ 
be very liable to disease, but whether from disease , 
accident, if any part be injured it is soon thrown oil 
the tentacula appear truncated. Sometimes a great i» a ' j 
are thus injured, but most commonly only one here ^ 
there. Scarcely a specimen, however, can be found, but 
more or less thus injured. Young ones are constat**^ 
sprouting up from between the old ones, and are always to ^ 
found from the size of a mere tubercle to the perfect orgjV t 
Some tentacula are branched in a dichotomous manner, 0 
more have a finger like process sprouting from the si 
Though these malformations are of very rare occurrence* ^ 
other species, yet in any one it a tentacle be injured ^ 
clipped, it very readily re-grows, and the experiment 
be successfully repeated to any number of times; but 
all reproduced parts, it is very liable to be re-formed, 
double manner; and as the tentacula of the Anthea c& ^ 
appear to be very susceptible of injuries, this will account 
the great prevalence of malformations in that species. u 
When these creatures are expanded they very cloS^ 
resemble a flower both in form and colouring; hence ^ 
public in most countries have given them the name of 
/tou-ers as expressive of their general appearance. In EuS ^.j 
we have Sea carnations, marygolds, anemonies, and dai 9 ‘® f( 
their scientific names are expressive of the same char® 1 -' ^ 
and all who may have examined them, will think ^ 
worthy of the comparison. 
