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PRACTICAL ZOOLOGY 



122 will make the following description clear. The hydralike 

 members of the hydroid colony arise asexually by budding and 

 serve to capture and digest food. Occasionally buds of a dif- 



FIG. 122. A, part of a colonial coelenterate. 1, ectoderm; 2, entoderm ; 

 3, mouth; 4, coslenteron ; 5, ccenosarc; 6, perisarc; 7, hydrotheca ; 8, blasto- 

 style ; 9, medusa-bud ; 10, gonotheca. 



B, free-swimming medusa: 1, mouth; 2, tentacles; 3, reproductive 

 organs; 4, radial canals; 5, statocyst. 



C, larva (planula). (From Parker and Haswell.) 



ferent sort are formed; these undergo a second budding, but 

 the buds thus produced do not remain attached to the colony. 

 When they reach their full size, they separate from the parent 



