EUDENDRIED^E. 



reproductive bodies, which, hoAvever, were wholly absent 

 from their larger brethren in the cave " (A. M. N.) . 



4. E. ARBUSCULA, T. Strethill Wright. 



"Observations on Brit. Zooph.," Edinb. New Phil. Journ. for July 1859, 

 113, pi. ix. fig. 5. 



Plate XIV. fig. 1. 



ZOOPHYTE much and densely branched ; MAIN STEM formed 

 of a number of tubes agglutinated together, of a dark 

 horn-colour; BRANCHES also compound towards the base, 

 becoming simple above, often much divided and sub- 

 divided, bearing numerous slender and transparent ra- 

 mules, more or less ringed, which support the polypites ; 

 POLYPITES white, with many tentacula, and a ring of 

 large thread-cells round the base of the body ; GONO- 

 PHORES (male) borne in clusters on short stems, springing 

 at right angles from the branches, the summit crowned 

 with a tubercle, containing barbed thread-cells ; (female) 

 unknown. 



THIS species forms bushy tree-like tufts, from 1 to 2 inches 

 in height, and thickly clothed with snowy polypites. The 

 branches are ringed near their insertions. 



The male reproductive bodies are distributed in clusters 

 over the zoophyte. Each spermary usually consists of 

 two spherical sacs^ one above the other, borne on a rather 

 long peduncle, the uppermost surmounted by the curious 

 tubercle, with its battery of thread-cells. 



Hab. Queensferry, Firth of Forth (T. S. W.). 



5. E. CAPILLARE, Alder. 



EUDENDKIUM CAPILLARE, Alder, North, and Durh. Cat. in Trans. Tynes. F. C. 

 iii. 105, t. iii. figs. 9-12; Hincks, Devon and Cornw. Cat., Ann. 

 N. H. x. (3rd ser.) 360. 



