. The animal creation: a popular introduction to zoology. Zoology. 34 HYDEOZOA, structure and yet so formidably armed, but more especially because it is the type of a large class of beautiful creatures, to which we must now beg the attention of the young naturalist. The Hydr^e, as we have seen, are capable of loco- motion, and w^ander about from place to place, but a vast majority of the animals most nearly allied to it in organization in their adult condition are fixed to some foreign object upon which they grow. The Club Hydrse (Coryne)* for example (Fig. 19), are always found growing upon t
. The animal creation: a popular introduction to zoology. Zoology. 34 HYDEOZOA, structure and yet so formidably armed, but more especially because it is the type of a large class of beautiful creatures, to which we must now beg the attention of the young naturalist. The Hydr^e, as we have seen, are capable of loco- motion, and w^ander about from place to place, but a vast majority of the animals most nearly allied to it in organization in their adult condition are fixed to some foreign object upon which they grow. The Club Hydrse (Coryne)* for example (Fig. 19), are always found growing upon the surface of some shell or stone, to which they seem rooted by the extremity of a. Fig. 19.—cobtke: a b, magnified; c, natural size. horny tube in whicli they live. In these creat'ires the upper part of the body is dilated into a kind of club- shaped head, armed with tentacula, which, instead of being arranged in a single circle around the mouth, are distributed irregularly over the exterior in such a manner that, at first eight they seem as though they could be of * KopvvT), liorune, 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 Jones, Thomas Rymer, 1810-1880. London : Society for Promoting Knowledge
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