Identifier: rareremarkablean01daly (find matches)
Title: Rare and remarkable animals of Scotland, represented from living subjects: with practical observations on their nature
Year: 1847 (1840s)
Authors: Dalyell, John Graham, Sir, 1775-1851
Subjects: Zoology -- Scotland Zoology
Publisher: London, J. Van Voorst
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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18. 89. Young Tubularia bred with 15 tentacula from the cyst. The ten-tacula of the regenerated hydra succeeding it were only 7. 40. Young Tubularia bred from the cyst in 1832. The hydra sub- sisted 21 days. 41. Upper portion of a young Tubularia, with a renovated hydra, which is rising from the stem. 42. Young Tubularia bred from the cyst, enlarged. 43. Prolific Tubularia—natural eize. Plate IV.—Redintegrations of the Tubularia Indivisa. Fig. 1. A hydra or head generated from an artificial cleft. 2. The original stalk of fig. 1, having been previously cut asunder, the hydra of this fig. 2, was generated from the summit of thelower half. 3. Head generated from the same lower half, after fig. 2 fell. 4. Summit of the regenerated neck in decay. 5. The lower half of fig. 2 having been sundered, a hydra was gene- rated from the summit of this section. 6. Another hydra, generated from the same summit of fig. 5, in suc- cession to the former, the shoot having prolonged. /■/,. /I. ?^r^
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Tnhii/mifi Jnffi\ f TUBULARIA. 41 Fig. 7. A hydra, generated at right angles to the stem, from an artificialcleft of a different specimen—none of the preceding. 8. Another hydra, generated from the same cleft, after the former feU. 9. A third hydra, generated from the same cleft, the parts originally distorted, having now become sjonmetrical. 10. Hydra, generated from the lower half of fig. 7, which had been sundered. 11. Hydra, generated in succession to fig. 10, from the summit of the same lower section. 12. This figure, originally the lower section of fig. 7, remained the upper part of fig. 10, after this fig. 10. lost its own lower half.The vacant summit a had borne the hydra of fig. 11, and nowwhen that hydra had fallen, a hydra c sprung from the oppo-site or lower extremity, contrary to the course of nature, andthen gradually rose upwards. 13. Ultimate appearance of fig. 12, in decay, after losing the hydra from c. 14. Hydra, generated in the natural direction, from the lower

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