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from the stock, but remain connected with it as medusoid gonophores. 

 From the fertilised eggs of such Hydroids other Hydroids are produced. 

 On the other hand there are Hydro-Medusa in whose whole life cycle 

 no attached Hydroid stock is developed. From the fertilised egg of such 

 a Craspedote Medusa another sexual Medusa is produced, often after a 

 series of metamorphoses. 



In the Discomedusce also a kind of alternation of generations occurs. 

 The fertilised egg may develop into a young attached Medusa, which 

 reproduces asexually by axial budding (strobilation, Fig. 81, p. 107) 



Fio. SS. Nausithoe. pr, Perradii ; ir, interradii ; ar, adradii ; sr, subradii ; rl, marginal lobes ; 

 t, tentacles ; gf, gastral filaments ; m, circular muscle of the subumbrella ; sfc, sensory bodies 

 (rhopalia) ; g, sexual glands (gonades) ; in the middle the oral cross. 



or by lateral budding 1 . The constricted young Medusae (ephyr^e), 

 whose organisation, but for absence of gonades, is essentially the same 

 as that of Naustthoe (Fig. 88), undergo a more or less complicated 

 metamorphosis, till they again become adult sexually mature Medusae. 

 Here, however, the organism which multiplies asexually is really a 

 young stage of the sexually differentiated Medusa, not a sister as in 

 the Hydro-Medusa'. The young Scyphistoma does not need to multiply 

 asexually. It can detach itself from the stem and develop direct into 

 a Medusa. There are also very many free-swimming Scypho-Medusce 

 from whose fertilised eggs a new Medusa is produced again direct 

 without the intervention of an attached stage in which multiplication 

 is asexual. This direct development is usually accompanied by meta- 



