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resembling the adult is formed as a bud. The bud becomes 

 detached and then gives rise to a permanent sexual Fungia. 

 From the nurse-stock there is formed however a fresh bud at 

 the centre of the scar left on the detachment of the old one. 

 The fresh bud eventually becomes separated from the nurse-stock 

 leaving a small portion of its stem behind ; each succeeding bud 

 similarly leaves a small portion of its stem, so that the nurse- 

 stock eventually acquires a jointed appearance. In the above 

 process we clearly have, as in the Hydromedusae, a non-sexual 

 form the nurse-stock produced directly from the larva, giving 

 rise by budding to a sexual form ; all the conditions of an alter- 

 nation of generations are therefore fulfilled. It seems however 

 possible that the nurse-stock itself may eventually become sexual. 



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