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Not being exposed to the asperities of the winter, they need no protection other than the thin egg-cases themselves. Are these nice and reasonable precautions, which rival the experiment of Rumford, a fortuitous result? one of the innumerable combinations which fall from the urn of chance?
But it is worth noticing that in colour the egg-cases closely resemble the common wrack to which they are oftenest fastened; and as they wave up and down in the water with the dark mass around them, they must be almost indistinguishable from the wrack itself by the keenest-sighted of their enemies.
In early July the tiny hoppers emerge from their egg-cases, and presumably creep out from their luminous domicile, and later on in the season these broods of varying numbers and all sizes are to be seen among the young stems of the plant, their beaks inserted, their pointed heads invariably in the same direction towards the top of the branch.
Yet so cohesive was the entire mass, that I sat close beneath it for the best part of two days and not more than a dozen ants fell upon me. There was, however, a constant rain of egg-cases and pupa-skins and the remains of scorpions and grasshoppers, the residue of the booty which was being poured in. These wrappings and inedible casing were all brought to the surface and dropped.
This was that the so-called ova of Flustra had the power of independent movement by means of cilia, and were in fact larvae. In another short paper I showed that the little globular bodies which had been supposed to be the young state of Fucus loreus were the egg-cases of the wormlike Pontobdella muricata.
"Well, I'm pretty busy now; make yourself comfortable until we pull out, and then I'll post you up as best I can, Mr. Bronson." Mr. "Bronson" pulled off his overcoat, and, seating himself in a chair, glanced around the car. In one end packages, crates, butter, egg-cases, and parts of machinery were piled up. At the other end a small iron safe was lying.
Sometimes it is found to contain a most precious deposit, the egg which is to produce a future fish. These egg-cases belong to different members of the Ray family. I saw one last winter, in which the inmate was fully developed. Should some old seaman hear me, he might say that I am telling a "fish-story" in good earnest.
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