. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. 272 Miss I. B. J. Sollas on a new omitted it was merely overlooked owing to its extreme trans- parency at this early stage and to the fact that weeds had not as yet settled upon it. Three weeks after hatching (on Nov. 25) two individuals were seen to show signs of budding ; the parent was retracted, and though I watched it constantly I never saw it expand its tentacles again, though dilatation and contraction of the body-wall occurred. The retracted tentacles of the parent los
. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. 272 Miss I. B. J. Sollas on a new omitted it was merely overlooked owing to its extreme trans- parency at this early stage and to the fact that weeds had not as yet settled upon it. Three weeks after hatching (on Nov. 25) two individuals were seen to show signs of budding ; the parent was retracted, and though I watched it constantly I never saw it expand its tentacles again, though dilatation and contraction of the body-wall occurred. The retracted tentacles of the parent lost their outlines and became an opaque mass (fig. 7), and when the young bud grew more active and expanded con- siderably (Dec. 4), it was clear that the original polyp had deo-enerated. The two individuals had reached this stage of Fiff. 8. .-s'^X^i:. Young colony fonned of descendants of individual B, Jan. 16, 1908. Zeiss obj. A, eyepiece 2. budding when I left them until Jan. 15,1908. I then found that one was dead, and the other had given rise to a colony (individual B, fig. 4) of four polypides. The valves of the statoblast were still adherent to the young colony (fig. 8). An ectocyst was present, but had to be looked for with great care even after its presence was known, as it was so exceedingly transparent and presumably of a refractive index not differing much from that of water; its surface is deeply folded or wriidvled in parts, as seen in fig. 5. The polypides fed actively, and soon buds appeared. On Jan. 20 I most unfortunately handled the colony with a pipette which had been used in a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd
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