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creeping stolons which j 

 Its lower part secretes a 



The adult colony, 

 however, is still unripe 

 sexually; full sexual ma- 

 turity is only reached by 

 thegonophores produced 

 subsequently, and thus 

 we have an alternation 

 of asexual and sexual 

 generations. 



The development of 

 these gonophores in 

 the case of Tubularia 

 (as well as in the case of 

 many other genera) has 

 been worked out by 

 Gotte (1907) ; we follow 

 his account in what 

 foUows. From just above 

 the region of the aboral 

 tentacles, finger-like 

 stolons grow out, and on 

 these, lateral protrusions 

 arise, which are the 

 medusa -buds. At the 

 tip of such a bud, the 



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;ive rise at intervals to other upright shoots, 

 horny shell, the perisarc. 



Fig. 32. — Two gonophores of Tubularia indivisa with 

 developing embryos inside. (After AUman.) 



A, gonophore with discoid embryo ; opening of umbrella-cavity 

 just formed ; radial canals clear. B, gonophore with actinnla 

 larva just escaping ; radial canals have disappeared. Act, actinula ; 

 em6, embryo; r.c, radial canal; sp, manubrium or spadix ; u, 

 opening of umbrella-cavity. 



Fig. 33. — Stages in development of Actinnla larva of Tubularia indivisa. (After Allman.) 

 A, creeping larva. B, first fixed form. a6.i, aboral tentacles ; o.t, oral tentacles ; per, perisarc ; 



St, stolon. 



ectoderm thickens to form a mass of cells, and in this mass a cavity 

 develops, the future umbrella-cavity. 



