52 COBYNIDJE. 



Hab. Attached to rocks and the stems of Laminaria 

 digitata, Firtli of Forth (G. J. A.) : on Coral/inn and other 

 seaweeds, and on the sides of rock-pools, Northumberland, 

 very abundant (J. A.) : Seaham Harbour, abundant (G. 

 Hodge) : Hartlepool (A. M. N.) : Whitby : Filey Brigg, on 

 Laminaria and other weeds, towards low-water mark, 

 very abundant (T. H.). 



This is the common Syncoryne along the north-eastern 

 coast. 



2. S. SARSII, Loven. 



SYNCORYNA SARSII, Loven, Svenske Vetensk. Acad. ITancll. 1835, tab. viii. 

 figs. 7-10; Wiegmann's Archiv, 1837, 321, tab. vi. figs. _'.' 

 28 ; Sars, Faun. Litt. Norv. part i. 2, t. i. figs. 1-G. 



,, RAMOSA, Loven, loc. cif. tab. viii. figs. 1-6. 



,, LOVENII, Sars, Faun. Litt. Norv. part i. 2 (footnote). 



Plate VII. fig. .",. 



STEM slender, very sparingly branched; polypary trans- 

 parent, of a very light horn-colour, sliylitlij and irregu- 

 larly wrinkled or annulated, especially towards the base, 

 generally smooth above; POLYPITES elongate oval, of a 

 light red colour, produced below into a long neck, with 

 12-16 tentacles scattered over the body; GONOPHORES 

 (2 or 3) with short peduncles, borne chiefly, but not 

 exclusively, at the base of the lowest tentacles. 



UMBRELLA of the free zooid (at the time of detachment) 

 globular, with thread-cells; MANUBRIUM short; MAR- 

 GINAL TENTACLES springing from bulbs, each bearing a 

 reddish-brown ocellus, nodulated with thread-cells, and 

 terminating in a spherical cluster. 



Height of zoophyte about i inch. 



THE stems of S. Sarsii, which are very slender, and not 

 flexuous and tangled as in Coryne VanBenedenii, are either 

 simple or bear two or three short branches. There is very 



