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Here the border has bent down at one place, just as in the 
preceding case, but here the septa do not merge into those of the 
Fig. 3. Fungia fungites. Underside. Calicular budding at 
the border. % nat. size. 
mother-coral, the bud having become more or less independent. 
A mouth has already been formed, completely encircled by septa, 
so that a separation of the bud from the parent has already been 
established. The part belonging to the bud is already easy to distinguish 
from that belonging to the parental coral, which was not practicable 
in the case previously described. Now when this separation becomes 
more evident, the whole aspect is that of a bud at the underside. 
Such a bud would then be considered as a lateral bud, although 
ab origine it was a calicular one. 
In this way may have arisen some of the buds of Semprr’s 
specimen alluded to above, since in the figare the septa of the old 
coral touch those of the buds. 
The buds above-described are all either devoid of a stem, or 
provided with a short stem. In one specimen I found at the under- 
side a bud with a longer stem, such as are generally found at an 
anthocormus. The upperside of the disc of the Fungia under dis- 
cussion is quite normal, while the underside differs from that of 
normal specimens (fig. 4). The central part is rather sharply isolated 
from the border, while part of it is defunct. We are impressed 
with the idea that when this coral had a diameter of about 3 cM., 
the tissues of the one moiety died off for some reason or other, 
while from the other half a regeneration was started, which caused 
the coral to ultimately grow up to 8 or 9 cm. and after this to 
present a normal aspect. But the defunct portion maintained itself 
and leans on the living portion like a scale. Attached to this defunct 
portion we observe a stemmed young bud 6 mm. in diameter, while 
the stem itself is 8 mm. in length. The extremity has not yet 
broadened into a disc. 
