140 CAMPANULARIIDJE. 



The Campanularia volubilis (Linn.) has been observed 

 at the following points: the coast of Massachusetts, the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence, Iceland, the North Cape, and Shet- 

 land. Obelia yeniculata has been tracked along much the 

 same course. All the Norwegian species have, I believe, 

 been obtained in Great Britain. 



Of the Mediterranean species, which are not numerous 

 so far as known to us, a large proportion occur on our 

 own coasts. 



In Australia and New Zealand the family seems to be 

 well represented by forms which differ from the European. 

 I have described a remarkable species from Melbourne 

 (Hincksia, Agassiz), which has very curious decumbent 

 gonothecae ; and I possess a second from Australia, which 

 exhibits the same peculiarity. 



Nowhere perhaps is Campanularian life to be met with 

 in greater profusion than on the floating weed of the 

 gulf-stream. I have seen large masses of it netted over 

 by the delicate white fibre of a species allied to Clytia 

 Johnstoni, from which rose thousands of the annulated 

 stalks, surmounted by the prettiest campanulate calycies. 



Genus CLYTIA, Lamouroux (in part). 



Der. From Clytie, one of the Oceanides. 



CAMPAKULARIA (in part), Lamarck, An. s. V. (2nd ed.) ii. 129. 



CLYTIA, Agassiz, N. H. TJ. S. iv. 354 ; Van Beneden, Faune Litt. de Belg. 



Polypes, 165. 



TROCUOPYXIS, Agassiz, N. H. U. S. iii. 46 ; iv. 354. 

 PLATYPYXIS, Agassiz, N. H. U. S. iv. 306, 354. 

 EUCOPE (in part), Gegenbaur, " Versuch eines Sjst. der Medus.," Zeitscb. f iir 



wissenschaft. Zool. viii. 241 (the free zooid). 

 CAMPANULARIA, Allman, Ann. N. H. for May 1864. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. Stem simple or slightly branched, 



