(a) _The Proboscis._ From the stomach there hangs down into the
bell cavity the proboscis or manubrium, which consists of a short
funnel-shaped stalk bearing on its distal end the four mouth lobes or
lips. The latter are somewhat broadly V-shaped processes lying in the
perradii with the convexity directed outwards, and with the concavity
on the inside forming the beginnings of four perradial furrows that are
continued upwards to the stomach. The four furrows are shown in the stalk
of the proboscis in Fig. 11, which represents a section taken a little
above the level of the mouth lobes. The same cross-shaped section of
the stalk shows the four perradial prominences or ridges overlying the
furrows, which are the direct continuations of the four projecting mouth
lobes.
(b) _The Suspensoria or Mesogonia._ The stomach (leaving out of
consideration the proboscis) hangs down into the bell cavity as a
slightly sagging saucer-shaped roof (Figs. 4 and 5). In the four perradii
it is attached to the lateral walls of the subumbrella by four slenderly
developed mesentery-like structures, the suspensoria or mesogonia. These
are simple ridges of gelatine, covered of course with the epithelium
of the bell cavity, which serve to keep the stomach in position much
in the way that a shelf is supported by brackets (Fig. 4, _su_). The
suspensorium accordingly has two parts, curved so as to lie at right
angles with each other: a vertical portion lying along the wall of the
subumbrella, and a horizontal which passes over from the vertical on
to the basal wall of the stomach. In Fig. 10 the suspensorium in each
quadrant is shown cut across just below the angle between the two parts,
so that the two appear in the section as projections on the wall of the
stomach and on the wall of the subumbrella.
(c) _The Interradial Funnels or Funnel Cavities._ It will be seen at
once that the four suspensoria serve as partitions to divide the upper
portion of the bell cavity, the part that lies between the stomach
and the lateral walls of the subumbrella, into four compartments.
These compartments extend upwards in the four interradii like inverted
funnels, whence their name. In the series of cross-sections they can be
traced upwards with constantly diminishing area from the level of the
suspensoria, Fig. 10 (_if_), to Fig. 6, which is taken very near the top
of the bell. Homologous structures exist in all the Scyphomedusæ, and in
some of the Lucernaridæ they are continued up even into the stalk of the
attached jelly-fish.
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