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calycle. In Devonshire, however, I have found it of much 

 larger size (about | of an inch high), more decidedly 

 branched, and bearing the reproductive capsules in abun- 

 dance. They are produced in the axils; and sometimes 

 one is present a little above them on the pedicel that 

 supports the hydrotheca. They contain one sporosac, 

 which buds from the side of the upper part of the axial 

 column, and ultimately becomes terminal. It bears two 

 or three ova, and is at last carried up and pushed through 

 the orifice of the capsule, becoming invested with a thick 

 gelatinous covering, and forming a nest in which the eggs 

 are hatched into planuloid embryos. 



The margin of the calycle in C. neglecta is of extreme 

 tenuity, and it is a matter of no slight difficulty to define 

 the subturreted crenulations. 



Hub. On the underside of stones, between tide-marks, 

 and on other zoophytes &c., from inshore to the coralline 

 region; common. 



9. C. EXIGUA, Sars. 



CAMPANUI/ARIA, Gegenbaur, Generationswechscl bei Medus. u. Pol. 35 (note), 



pi. i. figs. 5, 6. 

 LAOMEDEA EXIGUA, Sars, Midclellmvet's Litt. Faun. 50. 



Plate XXVIII. fig. 2. 



STEM very delicate, slightly flexuous, giving off at each 

 bend simple pedicels, ringed at the base and upper 

 extremity (the intermediate space being smooth), which 

 support the calycles; HYDROTHECA very small, regu- 

 larly funnel-shaped, xoith an even rim ; GONOTHEC.E axil- 

 lary, elongate, smooth, somewhat fusiform. 



Height about \ inch. 



Tins very minute species was first described and figured by 



