. Animal studies. THE CCELENTERATES 53 anemones, described in the next section. In the course of time remarkable changes ensue, which first manifest them-. Fig. 25.—Stages in the development of a scyphozoan jelly-fish, a, the attached young, which in b has separated into a number of disks, each of which becomes a jelly-fish, c—After Korschelt and Heider. selves in a series of grooves encircling the body. These grow deeper, and the body of the animal finally comes to resemble a pile of sau- cers with the edge of each developed into a number of lobes (Fig. 25, b). One after an- other each saucer
. Animal studies. THE CCELENTERATES 53 anemones, described in the next section. In the course of time remarkable changes ensue, which first manifest them-. Fig. 25.—Stages in the development of a scyphozoan jelly-fish, a, the attached young, which in b has separated into a number of disks, each of which becomes a jelly-fish, c—After Korschelt and Heider. selves in a series of grooves encircling the body. These grow deeper, and the body of the animal finally comes to resemble a pile of sau- cers with the edge of each developed into a number of lobes (Fig. 25, b). One after an- other each saucer, to preserve the simile, raises itself from the top of the pile and swims away, and is clearly seen to be a jelly-fish, though con- siderably unlike the adult. As growth pro- ceeds, however, it un- dergoes a series of transformations which result in the adult form-. 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 Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931; Kellogg, Vernon L. [from old catalog].
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