Aurelia

onc of the commonest of the British jelly-fish. 1t belongs to the order RHIZOSTOMIDA of the ACRASPEDOTE section of Hydrozoa. The adult consists of a rounded disc, convex above and flat below; from the upper part of the disc a tube (the manubrium) is suspended; the mouth is at the lower end, and it opens at the upper end to the “gastric cuvity” in the four lobes of which the food is digested. From each lobe a branching canal runs to the margin of the disc, while eight canals run directly to the large canal round the circumference. Four oral tentacles surround the mouth. On the margin of the disc are eight sense organs known as “tentaculocysts ” or “rhopalia”; a pair of olfactory pits is a ociated with each of these. A genita] gland occurs in each of the four gastric lobes. The remarkable development found in this genus has been described under ACRASPEDA: Aurelia aurita is the commonest English species, Aurelian, or AURELIAN US, Lucius DoMITIUS VALERIUS, the son of a peasant at Sirmium in Pannonia, was born about 212 a.p. He po e ed great bodily strength and military ability, and serving in the Roman army against the Franks and Goths speedily rose to the rank of consul. In 269 he distinguished himself highly in the great campaign of Claudius IT. against the Goths, and was nominated both by the emperor and the legionaries as succe or to the throne. He defeated the Gaule 285 a Jugonthi next of in Tetricus sovereignty anes, emperor a a inated had Thrace undisturbed, edict Church. and African under Val ent in i an. ascribed De sider able by tion Imperatorum, tus posed pigment transparent double a Cobalt (2) the the work Swi “eye” in in ie the task PaJmyra. 273, and the long in which Aurelius, Aurelius, official Julian Viris Cornel i us is De to Julian. to Aureolin, nitrite proce Yellow. Auricle, The mouth attachment the A; Alns, or 17 Aurelius.