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either brownish mucous masses of eggs or milky- 
white masses of sperm. 
There were no indications of hermaphrodit- 
ism. Neither were there any suggestions that this 
species broods its young internally, as reported 
by Atoda (1954) for a Japanese Anthopleura. 
Further work needs to be done to determine 
the origin of the aggregations of anemones on 
the rocks, and to determine the relative im- 
portance of sexual and asexual reproduction in 
maintaining a population in a given location. 
The distribution of the sexes into groups of 
males and females should prove to be a useful 
tool and point of reference for such study. 
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