A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2): The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc.Darwin, Charles
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A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2): The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc.
Darwin, Charles
Balanidae; Cirripedia
In Pl. 28, fig. 4 _b_, I have given a drawing of two of the cement
glands: the cement-trunk (_f f_) is smooth and apparently cylindrical:
it becomes enlarged (at _g_) before entering the gland: it seems even
to be prolonged across the gland under the form of a narrow bar (not
represented), which apparently serves to keep the two ends of the
trunk, on the two sides of the gland, in their proper relative places
and distances. The gland itself is an elongated bag (_h_), which
properly lies exactly over the enlarged portion (_g_) of the trunk,
but in the drawing has been purposely displaced: it gives rise, in the
later-formed glands, to a sort of neck (see the upper gland), which
is either so long as to deserve rather to be called a duct and which
soon bifurcates, or is quite short (see the lower gland) and gives rise
to two separate ducts. On the opposite side of these glands, there
is a spur (_m_), of greater or shorter length, which is evidently a
rudimentary duct, for in the younger glands it existed as a perfect
duct. Moreover, the first-mentioned duct often gives off branches
(_t′_), having an exactly similar appearance with the spur (_m_). The
membrane of which the cement-trunk (_f_), with the enlargements (_g_),
is composed, is smooth, but that of the glands and of all the ducts,
presents a very peculiar appearance, which at first would be called
scaled, but more properly perhaps notched,--each notch being apparently
formed by a line of thickened membrane, extending obliquely round only
a short portion of the tube, and indenting it. The ducts, which I
measured, were between 1/3000th and 4/3000ths of an inch in diameter.
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