If the structure of the vascular lamellæ of the internal system has been
made clear, the appearances of the vertical and horizontal components in
the figures will be understood without much further explanation. The four
vertical strips in the interradii (_ivl_) have been already referred to
in the figures of the cross-sections of both Charybdea and Tripedalia. In
the longitudinal sections of the two jelly-fish through the interradii,
the vertical lamellæ are cut throughout their entire length from stomach
to connecting canals (Figs. 5-20, _ivl_). The horizontal cross-pieces at
the tops of the vertical lamellæ also appear in several of the figures.
Fig. 36 represents the appearance that would be given by a longitudinal
section taken through any portion of the upper part of the bell except
in the interradii, or in the perradii, through the gastric ostia. The
horizontal vascular lamella (_hvl_) is shown connecting the endoderm
of the stomach (_ens_) with that of the stomach pocket (_enp_). In a
longitudinal section directly through an interradius (Fig. 5 or 20) the
horizontal lamella is cut just at the point where it joins the vertical,
so that the two are not differentiated. In a section through the region
of a perradius (Fig. 4 or 19) the horizontal lamella is of course not
cut, since the section passes through the gastric ostium, whose existence
is conditional upon fusion not having taken place between the endodermal
surfaces.
The first figure in each of the series of cross-sections (Figs. 6 and 21)
also shows the horizontal vascular lamella, cut across slantingly twice
in each quadrant as it passes between the gelatine of the ex- and of the
subumbrella to connect the epithelium of the stomach with that of the
stomach pocket. The fact that more of the lamella does not appear in such
a cross-section only shows that its course is not perfectly horizontal.
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