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Marvels of pond-life : or, A year's microscopic recreations among the polyps, infusoria, rotifers, water-bears, and polyzoa (1861)

Slack, Henry James, 1818-1896 · London : Groombridge · leaf 193

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e, to be furnished at itsorigin with long ciliated tentacles, and to have asingle nervous ganglion on one side of the gesophngus.We must then conceive the intestine bent back tillits anal orifice comes near the mouth; and thiscurved digestive tube to be suspended in a bag con-taining fluid, and… … Plumatolla icpens on a leaf. PLITMATELLA REPENS. 159 in, and the latter letting it out. The mouth ofthe bag is, so to speak, tied round the creaturesneck just below the tentacles, which are the onlyportions of it that are left free. Tlie investingsack has in nearly every case the power of…

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