GARVEIA. ] 01 



THE poly piles, with their numerous tentacles, bear some 

 resemblance to a full-blown flower. The pearly bosses, 

 which are of a lustrous white when seen against a dark 

 ground, are very conspicuous, and form a unique and 

 beautiful garniture. The web connecting the tentacles 

 extends but a short distance above the base. 



The gonophores (female), when fully developed, exceed 

 the polypites considerably in size, and contain a very large 

 number of ova. I have counted 300 that had bceu pressed 

 out of a single sporosac. The branched gastrovascular 

 vessels are orange-coloured. 



Hub. Ilfracombe, on Flustra foliacea and on this only, 

 in about 7-10 fathoms off the Capstone. The Flustra is 

 very abundant in this locality; and almost every bunch that 

 comes up is more or less invested by the Hydranthea, which 

 covers it with its delicate network and multitudes of 

 minute polypites. 



Genus GARVEIA, T. S. Wright. 



Der. Named from Inch Garvie, in the Firth of Forth. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. Stems compound and branched, 

 roofed by a filiform stolon, the whole invested by a polypary ; 

 polypites fusiform, with a single verticil of tentacles, which 

 are not alternately elevated and depressed, surrounding a 

 conical proboscis ; gonophores borne on the summit of short 

 branches springing from the stem or the stolon, and con- 

 taining fixed sporosacs. 



IN this genus the tentacles, contrary to the general rule, 

 are held erect in one uniform series, and not alternately 

 elevated and depressed. The gonophores spring from 

 branches terminating above in a shallow cup, which exactly 

 resemble those that support the polypites. 



