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One of our most common little Jelly-fishes, the Dysmorphosa (Fig. 105), to which we owe the occasional blue phosphorescence of the sea, so brilliant at times, buds in this manner. Fig. 105 represents an adult Dys- Fig. 105. Fig. 106. morphosa, on the proboscis of which may be seen three small buds in different stages of development. In Fig. 106 the proboscis is more enlarged, showing one of the little Jelly-fishes similar to the parent, just ready to drop off. We need not wonder at the Fig. 105.... Dysmorphosa seen in profile ; magnified. Fig 106. Magnified proboscis of Dysmorphosa with young Medusae budding from it. 76 MARINE ANIMALS OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY. immense number of these animals, with which the . Sea actually swarms at times, when we know that as fast as they are dropped, and it takes but a few days to complete their de velopment, they each begin the same process ; so that in the course of a week or ten days one such Medusa, supposing it to have produced six buds only, will have given rise to forty-two Jelly-fishes, thirty-six of which may be equally prolific in the same short period.
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