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(as in all probability it does), has not been ascertained. A young 

 bitentaculate, but free medusa, has been found as early as the 

 fifth of June. A fully developed specimen has occurred in the 

 end of July, while as late as the twelfth of September, buds were 

 still produced from the coryne, Figs. 6, 7 and 8 having been 

 drawn at this date. This leads me to say that I have not seen 

 the actual separation of a bud from the hydroid, and its assump- 

 tion of the form of Fig. 5. My confidence that they are one and 



Fig. 2. 



Fig. 4. Corynitis agassizii. ( McCrady. ) 



Fig. 3. Corynitis. 

 (McGrady.) 



Fig. 5. Gemmaria gemmosa. (After McCrady. ) 



the same is due to the very marked and almost unmistakable 

 peculiarities of the medusa, which are fairly exhibited in the buds 

 while attached to their hydra." . 



As will be seen, there is little here from which one might 

 attempt to identify the hydroid. Aside from the fact that it is 

 designated as a corynid, and that it has a short thick hydranth with 



