Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 265
it is situated in certain internal organs, as in thecanals which radiate from the centre to the margin ofthe bell, or in the ovaries. It is from this latter seatthat the phosphorescence proceeds in Oceania pilata,the form which gives out such a light that Ehrenbergcompared it to a lamp-globe… … A. Pyrosoma. B. Poniton. (Magnified.) group resembling the Medusidae in the jelly-Hke char-acter of their bodies, but more closely alhed in struc-ture to the Actinozoa. But we will pass over thesecases in order to dwell more particularly on the remark-able tunicate known asPyrosoma, a name…
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