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surface make their way only slowly through the wall to the 

 receptive ectoderm, an operation which can be demonstrated in 

 the case of acetic acid. 



7. If there- is a nervous layer in the entoderm of the tentacles 

 of Condylactis, it must be extremely simple in structure and 

 function as compared with that in the ectoderm. 



8. The tentacles of Condylactis through their reactions ex- 

 hibit marked polarity, ciliary and neuromuscular. The neuro- 

 muscular polarity disappears on narcotisation with chloretone. 

 It is probably dependent upon the direction taken by the nerve 

 fibrils which emerge from the sense cells. Where this direction 

 has been determined, it is predominantly toward the proximal 

 end of the tentacle. 



9. The actinian tentacle, in contradistinction to such append- 

 ages as those of the arthropods or the vertebrates, contains a 

 complete neuromuscular mechanism by which its responses can 

 be carried out quite independently of the rest of the polyp. 



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