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figs. 1 and 2). In Phascolosoma and Phascolion this funnel-shaped structure has broken up into a more or less definite group of tentacles, which in Dendrostoma are arranged in four See also:

groups. In Aspidosiphon and Physcosoma the tentacles are usually arranged in a See also:

HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse-See also:

SHOE (a word appearing in the Teutonic languages in various forms, as Ger. Schuh, Swed. and Dan. sko, sometimes supposed to come from an unknown root ska or sku, cover)

shoe, which may be See also:

double, overhanging the mouth dorsally. On the surface of the funnel-shaped lophophore are numerous ciliated grooves, and each of the tentacles in the tentaculated forms has a similar groove directed towards the mouth. These grooves doubtless serve to See also:

DIRECT

direct currents of See also:

WATER

water, carrying with them small organisms towards the mouth. The skin consists of a layer of cuticle, easily stripped off, secreted by an ectodermal layer one See also:

CELL (from Lat. cella, probably from an Indo-European kal —seen in Lat. celare, to hide; another suggestion connects the word with Lat. cera, wax, taking the original meaning to refer to the honeycomb)

cell thick. Within this is usually a sheath of connective See also:

TISSUE (Fr. tissu, tissue, participle of tisser, Lat. texere, to weave)

tissue, which surrounds a layer of circular muscles; the latter may be split up into See also:

SEPARATE

separate bundles, but more usually See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form a See also:

UNIFORM

uniform See also:

SHEET

sheet. Within the circular muscles is a layer of See also:

LONGITUDINAL

longitudinal muscles, very often broken into bundles, the number of which is often of specific importance.

Oblique muscles sometimes See also:

lie between the circular and longitudinal sheaths. On the inner surface is a layer of peritoneal epithelium, which is frequently ciliated, and at the bases of the retractor muscles is heaped up and modified into the reproductive See also:

ORGANS

organs. The ectoderm is in some genera modified to form certain excretory glands, which usually take the form of papillae with an apical opening. These papillae give the surface a roughened aspect; the use of their secretion is unknown. They are best See also:

DEVELOPED

developed in Physcosoma. When the body of a Sipunculoid is opened, it is seen that the body-cavity is spacious and full of a corpusculated fluid, in which the various organs of the body See also:

FLOAT (in O. Eng. floc and flota, in the verbal form f eotan; the Teutonic root is flut-, another form of flu-, seen in " flow," cf. " fleet "; the root is seen in Gr. a-M e, to sail, Lat. pluere, to rain; the Lat, fluere and fluctus, wave, is not connect

float. The most conspicuous of these is co-educational; founded in 1883), All See also:

SAINTS, BATTLE OF THE

Saints School (See also:

PROTESTANT

Protestant Episcopal), for girls, and a Lutheran Normal School (1889). The See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city is the see of a See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic and of a Protestant Episcopal See also:

bishop. The See also:

RIVER

river falls here about zoo ft. in See also:

HALF

half a mile and provides See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good water See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power for manufactures. The See also:

TOTAL

total value of the factory products increased from $883,624 in 1900 to 51,897,790 in 1905, or 114.8%. See also:

SIOUX

Sioux Falls is a jobbing and wholesaling centre for See also:

South Dakota and for the adjacent parts of See also:

IOWA

Iowa and of See also:

MINNESOTA

Minnesota. A See also:

QUARTZITE

quartzite See also:

SANDSTONE

sandstone, commonly known as See also:

JASPER

jasper or " red See also:

GRANITE (adapted from the Ital. granite, grained; Lat. granum, grain)

granite, " is extensively quarried in the vicinity, and See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle raising and farming are important See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries of the surrounding See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country.

A See also:

settlement was made at Sioux Falls in 1856, but this was abandoned about six years later on See also:

account of trouble with the See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians. A permanent settlement was established in 1867, and Sioux Falls was incorporated as a See also:

VILLAGE

village in 1877 and was chartered as a city in 1883.

End of Article: SIPUNCULOIDEA

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