TUBULARIA CO11ONATA. 119 



occur at intervals throughout the length of its stems, which 

 are of very thin papyraceous texture. It is sometimes 

 simple, but often irregularly and fantastically branched, 

 the branches being short and given off at various angles. 

 The polypite is very small in comparison with that of T. 

 coronata, but brilliant as others of its tribe, " equal in rich- 

 ness of colour to the Guernsey Lily," according to Ellis ; 

 and the gonophores are borne in shortly stalked clusters. 



The tubes of T. larynx are on the whole less slender 

 than those of T. coronata, but its delicate little tufts con- 

 trast strongly with the tall complicated masses of the latter 

 species. 



Hob. Common between tide-marks, and ranging to deep 

 water. " Near the opening of the Thames, adhering to 

 other marine bodies and often to the bottoms of ships '' 

 (Ellis) : from brackish water to 50 fathoms, on the east 

 coast, Scotland (Lieut. Thomas) : on stones between tide- 

 marks, South Devon, common (T. H.): Belfast Lough 

 (W. Thompson) : &c. &c. 



[Mediterranean (Pallas) : Mouth of the Elbe (Kirchen- 

 pauer) ; Grand Manan (Stimpson).] 



3. T. CORONATA, Abildgaard. 



TUBULAUIA CORONATA, Abildgaard, Zool. Dan. (Milllcr), iv. 25, pi. cxli. figs. 

 1-5 ; Van Beneden, Memoire sur les Tubul. 49, pi. i. figs. 7-19 ; 

 Allman, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinb. Session 1857-58. 

 LAKYNX, var. j3, Johnston. B. Z. (1st. edit.) 116. 

 GRACILIS, Harvey, Proc. Zool. Soc. no. xli. 54 ; Johnston, B. Z. 

 (2nd edit.) 52, pi. iv. figs. 3-5; Aider, North, and Durh. 

 Cat. in Trans. Tynes. F. C. iii. 107. 



Plate XXI. fig. 2. 



STEMS clustered, very slender, irregularly branched, of a 

 light straw-colour, smooth or somewhat wrinkled, with 

 occasional ringed spaces; POLYPITES larye, bright orange- 



