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Female pill bugs carry their fertilized eggs in a marsupium — a brood pouch located on their underside.

Secondly, those in which the young are produced in a very imperfect condition, and are usually nourished for a time in a marsupium or pouch.

Australia and Tasmania are the residence of the curious family of animals with pouches, called Marsupialia, from marsupium, signifying a purse or bag.

It is therefore interesting to consider a product that is identical with that described in the pharmacopœias as produced by the P. marsupium, Roxb., though the latter does not grow in the Philippines.

Thanks, ever so much," the boy said; "but what puzzles me in this Bulletin is the mussel's marsupium, or pouch.