. Ocean wonders: a companion for the seaside. 1. Early stage of Jelly-Fish (Aurelia). 2. Strobila, more advanced stage,to be detached and form the adult (Ephyra, Agassiz).. duction and growth are so anomalous as to have long baffledthe investigations of naturalists. Their nature is now betterknown, but we suspect there is much yet to be learned inregard to them. The hydroids are compound animals which produce in-dividuals ; and these individuals in their turn produce com- HYDROIDS, MEDUSAE, ETC. 151 pound progeny. Some of them look like shrubs, youngtrees, or bushes, and only minute investigat
. Ocean wonders: a companion for the seaside. 1. Early stage of Jelly-Fish (Aurelia). 2. Strobila, more advanced stage,to be detached and form the adult (Ephyra, Agassiz).. duction and growth are so anomalous as to have long baffledthe investigations of naturalists. Their nature is now betterknown, but we suspect there is much yet to be learned inregard to them. The hydroids are compound animals which produce in-dividuals ; and these individuals in their turn produce com- HYDROIDS, MEDUSAE, ETC. 151 pound progeny. Some of them look like shrubs, youngtrees, or bushes, and only minute investigation proves themto possess vitality, and to be in fact communities of indi-viduals arranged in a plant-like form; from these may behatched a single jelly-fish or medusa, and from the medusawill eventually be produced a group of hydroids. The hydroids belong to the division Acalephce, and areas a general thing semi-transparent, fragile, and often verygraceful objects, yet not always so harmless as they look. In
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