. Diversions of a naturalist . Natural history. 96 DIVERSIONS OF A NATURALIST person stung in this way and even dangerous. There are two other common large jelly-fish on the English coast, one called " Chrysaora " (Fig. 8), with a wheel-like pattern of brown pigment on the disk, and the other with the mouth lobes very large and bound together like a column. The common Aurelia is remarkable for the fact that the young which hatch from its eggs attach themselves to stones and rocks on the sea bottom, and grow into little white tube-like polyps, about half an inch long, quite unlike the
. Diversions of a naturalist . Natural history. 96 DIVERSIONS OF A NATURALIST person stung in this way and even dangerous. There are two other common large jelly-fish on the English coast, one called " Chrysaora " (Fig. 8), with a wheel-like pattern of brown pigment on the disk, and the other with the mouth lobes very large and bound together like a column. The common Aurelia is remarkable for the fact that the young which hatch from its eggs attach themselves to stones and rocks on the sea bottom, and grow into little white tube-like polyps, about half an inch long, quite unlike their parent, with a crown of small tentacles surrounding the mouth, whilst they are fixed by the opposite end of the body. Then a very curious thing happens. The little polyp becomes nipped at intervals across its length, so that it looks like a pile of saucers — a dozen or more. And then the top saucer swims away as a minute jelly-fish, the next follows, and so on, so that, in the course of an hour or two, the whole pile separates into a number of freely swimming young, each of which gradually grows into a. Fig. 8.—A common British Jelly-fish. Chrysaora hysoscella, usually twice as big as the 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 Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929. New York : Macmillan Co.
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