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of the position of the bud is noteworthy in view of its rarity, and 

 the case is worth reinvestigating, for in other animal groups a 



Fig. \\Z. —Loiihocalyx j^hilipjxjisis. The specimen bears several buds attached to it by 

 long tufts of spicules. (After F. E. Schulze.) 



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Fig. 114. — Leucosolenia botryoides. A, a piece of the Spouge laden with buds, a-f; i, 

 the spicules of the buds directed away from their free ends ; k, the spicules of the 

 parent directed towards the osculuni, j. B, a bud which has been set free and has 

 become fixed by the e.'ctremity which was free or distal in A. (After Vasseur.) 



bud or a regenerated part retains so constantly the same orien- 

 tation as the parent that Loeb,'^ after experimenting on the 



' '-Biological Lectures, "Wood's HoU," 1894, p. 43. 



