Hydra Viridis Small 305×320 Medium 610×640 Large 977×1024 Download Tiff Original 2289×2400 | (905.4 KB) Description "The Hydra Viridis is another freshwater polyp, common to ponds and still waters Sometimes the green hydra inhabits brooks filled with herbage." This image shows the Hydra bearing an embryo ready to detach itself. Keywords freshwater creatures, jelly fish hydrozoa, jellyfish Galleries Jellyfish Source: Hazlitt Alva Cuppy PH.D., Editor Beauties and Wonders of Land and Sea (Springfield, OH: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1895)