Evenings at the microscope : or, Researches among the minuter organs and forms of animal life (1884)
Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888 · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 265
s the ciliated margin ; probably these are muscularfilaments. The funnel is between the lobes, and leads bya short oesophagus, or gullet, to a bulbous transparentmastax, in which are seen jaws that wTork on each other.Below this is a long capacious sac, without convolutionsor constrictions, but… … TWO-LIPPEDTUBE-WHEEL. WHEEL-BEARERS. 253 the faecal matter driven rapidly upward as through acanal, until the mass was discharged just behind thesinuous cleft. On our mixing carmine with the water, theeffect is very striking; the particles, whirled round in twocircular vortices, are poured in an…
Zoology · Microscopy
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