A bud will grow out of the side of the body (I
am not speaking of the common sea anemone, but of allied creatures)
just like the bud of a plant, and that will fashion itself into a
creature just like the parent. There are some of them in which these
buds remain connected together, and you will soon see what would be the
result of that. If I make a bud grow out here, and another on the
opposite side, and each fashions itself into a new polype, the
practical effect will be that before long you will see a single polype
converted into a sort of tree or bush of polypes. And these will all
remain associated together, like a kind of co-operative store, which is
a thing I believe you understand very well here,--each mouth will help
to feed the body and each part of the body help to support the
multifarious mouths. I think that is as good an example of a
zoological co-operative store as you can well have. Such are these
wonderful creatures. But they are capable not only of multiplying in
this way, but in other ways, by having a more ordinary and regular kind
of offspring.
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