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ATRACTYLID.E. 



white fibres, and bear at their summits a single crimson 

 polypite with transparent, colourless tentacles. " This 

 beautiful little zoophyte, when seen with a single lens, pre- 

 sents a perfect garden of minute animal flowers covering the 

 roots of the seaweed." (T. S. Wright.} 



Hab. Inch Garvie, Firth of Forth, on roots of Laminaria 

 saccharina (T. S. W.). 



P. (?) BITENTACULATUS, T. S. Wright. 



ATRACTYLIS BITENTACULATA, Wright, Journ. Anat. & Physiol. i. 334, pi. xiv. 

 fig. 5. 



STEMS very short; POLYPITES minute, club-shaped, non- 

 retractile, each furnished with two 

 erect tentacles ; REPRODUCTION ^i. 9. 



unknown. 



THE polypites are thickly clustered 

 on a retiform stolon. "They have 

 the habit, like that of Lar (Gosse), 

 of quickly and repeatedly bending 

 down the body until the mouth is 

 brought close to the surface on which 

 the zoophyte grows." 



Hob. Found in a Pecten-shell 

 dredged from the Firth of Forth, near Inch Keith (T. S.W.). 



P. (?) QUADRITENTACULATUS, T. S. Wright. 



ATRACTYLIS QUADEITENTACULATA, Wright, Journ. Anatom. & Physiol. i. 334, 

 pi. xiv. fig. 6. 



POLYPITES sessile, short, columnar, non-retractile, with 4 

 alternate tentacles two long and depressed, two very 

 short and nearly at right angles to the body. 



