BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WOODS HOLE AND VICINITY. 



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Eudendrium carneum Clarke. 



Nutting, 1901, p. 333; Hargitt, 1908, p. 97. 



A specimen found in United States Fish Com- 

 mission collection at Woods Hole, dated De- 

 cember 17, 1888, locality not stated. Nutting. 

 Recorded by Hargitt from the following 

 points: Piles of New York Yacht Club pier at 

 Vineyard Haven (collected by R. C. Osburn); 

 off Naushon, on Fucus off Gay Head (1906 and 

 ? 1907). 



Eudendrium tenue A. Agassiz. 



A. Agassiz, 1865, p. 160; Verrill and Smith, 

 l8 73. P- 734; Nutting, 1901, p. 333; Hargitt, 

 1908, p. 97. 



Buzzards Bay at Naushon. A. Agassiz. Vine- 

 yard Haven, at New York Yacht Club pier, 

 August, 1906. (Collected by R. C. Osburn; 

 identified by C. W. Hargitt.) 



Eudendrium capillare Alder. 

 Hargitt, 1901, p. 310; 1908, p. 97; Nutting, 1901, 



P- 334- 



"Newport, R. I., in shallow water." Nutting. 

 Great Harbor, Woods Hole. Hargitt. A 

 specimen doubtfully assigned to this species 

 by Dr. Hargitt was dredged near Quicks Hole, 

 at Phalarope station 82; others recorded from 

 Buzzards Bay, at 1909 repetitions of Fish 

 Hawk stations 7670 (? fragments) and 7672. 



Eudendrium album Nutting. 



Nutting, 1901, p. 334; Hargitt, 1901, p. 310; 1908, 

 p. 97. 



"Found on floating seaweed ... in ... tow 

 at Woods Hole; also on United States Fish 

 Commission wharf." Nutting. Specimens 

 thus identified by Dr. Hargitt were taken at 

 Fish Hawk stations (repeated): 7523 (1906) and 

 7776(1907). 



Eudendrium sp. undet. 



Fish Hawk stations: 7523 bis, 7539, 7541 bis, 7554 

 bis, 7555. 7564,7564^3, 7581, 7582, 7583,7584, 

 7592, 7596, 7599. 7604, 7680, 7681, 7768, 7769, 

 7770, 7772, 7773, 7777. 



Phalarope and Blue Wing stations: 15, 51, 108. 



Family CLADONEMID^. 



Gemmaria cladophora Agassiz^ 



Nutting, 1901, p. 371 ; Hargitt, 1904, p. 42 ; Mayer, 

 1910, p. 90 Zanclea cladophora). 



"Collected at Woods Hole, August, 1899." 

 Nutting. Woods Hole (? independent rec- 

 ord). Hargitt. 



Gemmaria gemmosa McCrady. 



A. Agassiz, 1865, p. 184; Verrill and Smith, 1873, 

 P- 735. 455; Fewkes, 1881, p. 150; Murbach, 

 1898, p. 354; Nutting, 1901, p. 329, 372; Har- 

 gitt, 1904, p. 42; 1908, p. 100; Mayer, 1910, 

 p. 88 (Zanclea gemmosa). 



"Buzzards Bay, Naushon." A. Agassiz. New- 

 port, in September. Fewkes. Polyp colo- 

 nies recorded by Murbach for Woods Hole, 

 under name of "Coryniiis agassizii McCrady." 

 Since these liberated medusae which were 

 identified as Gemmaria gemmosa, Murbach con- 

 cluded that Coryniiis agassizii and Gemmaria 

 gemmosa were merely different phases in the 

 life history of the same organism. Nutting 

 accepted this view, but Hargitt rejects it, be- 

 lieving Murbach to have been mistaken in his 

 identification of the polyp form. 



Family TUBULARIID/E. 



Tubularia couthouyi Agassiz [Chart 18.] 

 Bumpus, 1898, p. 489; 18983, p. 61; Hargitt, 



1901, p. 313; Nutting, 1901, p. 338. 

 Quicks Hole and off Nobska Point. G. M. Gray, 

 cited by Nutting. Vineyard Sound, common, 

 chiefly in the eastern half; mouth of Buzzards 

 Bay ; dredged in 2 to 19 fathoms, mainly on mud- 

 free bottoms, and particularly among stones 

 and gravel. Survey. The specimens taken 

 in the inner waters during the summer months 

 are all, or nearly all, empty perisarcs, or ones 

 in which the coenosarc is dormant. Living 

 hydranths, loaded with ripe gonophores, were 

 reported by Dr. Bumpus during March (1898), 

 and Mr. Gray states that he has taken living 

 specimens from January till April. Offshore, 

 in 29 fathoms, living hydranths were dredged 

 by the Fish Hawk in August, 1905, and at 

 Crab Ledge small ones were met with July 

 21, 1908, and August 12, 1909. Nutting writes: 

 "A number of beautiful specimens were sent 

 me by Dr. Mead, of Brown University, who 

 had them growing in a submerged flatboat at 

 Providence, R. I. [season not stated]." Mr. 

 Gray reports that he found considerable num- 

 bers of this species growing upon the carapace 

 of a living Limulus. Those dredged are gen- 

 erally attached to stones or shells. (Is Nut- 

 ting justified in his statement that this species 

 is usually found in brackish water?). 

 Fish Hawk stations: 7522 bis (i tube), 7528 

 (many tubes), 7529 (i stem), 7531 (2 stems), 

 7532 bis (many stems), 7533 bis (few stems), 

 7534 (few tubes)*, 7537 (few), 7538 (very 

 abundant), 7538 bis (few), 7539 (few), 7544 



