This passage is
attached to the concave surface of the flesh in such a way that the
flesh is in betwixt the duct and the gut; for the gut is related to
the convexity and this duct to the concavity, pretty much as is
observed in quadrupeds. And the duct is identical in both the sexes;
that is to say, the duct in both is thin and white, and charged with a
sallow-coloured moisture, and is attached to the chest.
(The following are the properties of the egg and of the convolutes
in the carid.)
The male, by the way, differs from the female in regard to its
flesh, in having in connexion with the chest two separate and distinct
white substances, resembling in colour and conformation the
tentacles of the cuttle-fish, and they are convoluted like the 'poppy'
or quasi-liver of the trumpet-shell. These organs have their
starting-point in 'cotyledons' or papillae, which are situated under
the hindmost feet; and hereabouts the flesh is red and blood-coloured,
but is slippery to the touch and in so far unlike flesh. Off from
the convolute organ at the chest branches off another coil about as
thick as ordinary twine; and underneath there are two granular seminal
bodies in juxta-position with the gut.
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