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ZOOLOGY 



SECT. 



The simplest mode of budding is that just described in Zoan- 

 thus, in which new zooids are developed from a narrow band-like 



B 



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FIG. 130. Zo an thus sociatus. A, entire colon}' ; st. stolon. B, transverse section; s : i/>li. 

 siphonoglyphes ; il. <!. dorsal, and v. d. ventral directive mesenteries. (After McMumch and 

 Korschelt and Heider.) 



or tubular stolon (Fig. 130, st.). A more usual method resembles 

 that we are already familiar with in Hydrozoa, new buds being 



formed as lateral outgrowths, 

 and a tree-like colony arising 

 with numerous zooids spring- 

 ing from a common stem or 

 coenosarc. Corallium and Gor- 

 gonia (Figs. 132 and 141) are 

 good examples of this type of 

 growth. In other cases the 

 buds grow more or less paral- 

 lel with one another, producing 

 massive colonies either of close- 

 set zooids or of zooids separ- 

 ated by a solid ccenosarc. As 

 examples of this type we may 

 take Pcdytlioa, the most com- 

 plex of the Actiniaria, and 

 many of the common Madre- 

 poraria, such as Astrcva (Fig. 

 133). In the Sea-pens (Penrta- 

 talacca) the proximal end of 

 the elongated colony (Fig. 

 134) is sunk in the mud, and 

 the distal end bears zooids 

 springing either directly from 



sf, 



ri<.:. 131. Hartea eleerans. rivl. pullet : 

 mes. mesentery ; .;>. spicules ; t. tentacles. 

 (After Perceval Wright.) 



