86 EUDENDRIII)y. 



Salicornaria farciminoides &c., not uncommon ; near 

 Polperro, Cornwall (T. H.). 



6. E. VAGINATUM, Allnian. 



"Notes on the Hydroida," Ann. N. H. for Jan. 1863, (ser. 3) xi. 10. 



ZOOPHYTE much branched, polypary deeply and regularly 

 anmdated throughout ; POLYPITES vermilion, with about 

 18 tentacula, the body, as far as the origin of the ten- 

 tacles, enveloped in a loose corrugated membranous 

 sheath, which loses itself posteriorly upon the polypary ; 



REPRODUCTION UllknOWll. 



Height about 1| inch. 



Hub. " In rock-pools at extreme low water, spring tides, 

 Shetland" (G. J. A.). 



7. E. INSIGNE, Hincks. 



EUDENDRIUM INSIGNE, Hincks, Devon and Cornw. Cat., Ann. N. H. (ser. 3) 



ix. 159 and 297, pi. Tii. fig. 2. 

 HUMILE, Alhnfm, Ann. N. H. for Jan. 1863, (ser. 3) xi. 9. 



Plate XIV. fig. 3. 



ZOOPHYTE delicate, more or less branched; stem and 

 branches closely ringed throughout; POLYPITES rather 

 large, vase-shaped, with about 20 tentacles, red, with 

 a shade of yellow or brown ; GONOPHORES (male) desti- 

 tute of a terminal tubercle ; (female) globose, on short 

 stalks, of an orange colour. 



Height (commonly) about a quarter of an inch, sometimes 

 more. 



THE polypary of this species is distinctly annulated 

 throughout, like that of a Coryne. The polypites are 

 very graceful in form, and of a reddish-brown colour; 

 the proboscis, as is very commonly the case in this and 



