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sperm, owing, perhaps, to the absence of some substance in the 

 sperm. If, however, the sperm is excited to greater activity by 

 alcohol, ammonia, ether, or by certain salts, it may force an 

 entrance despite the resistance. 



In another ascidian, Cynthia partita, I have found that self- 

 fertilization often occurs, but the sperm generally fertilizes 

 its own eggs less often than those of another individual. In 

 the ascidian, Molgula manhattensis, self-fertilization occurs as 

 readily as fertilization by sperm of another individual. 



The failure to self-fertilize in some hermaphroditic or- 

 ganisms suggests that factors similar to those in Ciona may be 

 at work in forms closely inbred for several generations, where the 

 closely related males and females would seem to stand in some- 

 what the same relation to each other as the male and female gen- 

 erative organs in the same individual. 



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