PLATE III. 



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 Fig. 1. PENNATULA SPINOSA. 



Pig. 2. CAEYOPHYLLIA 141 



Fig. 3. VlEGTTLAEIA MIRABILIS. 



Fig. 4. Isis NOBILIS Coral of commerce. 



The above figures, illustrative of various 

 forms of cortical zoophytes, are, with the ex- 

 ception of Caryophyllia, only generally referred 

 to in the text. 



Fig. 5. ACTINIA MESEMBEYANTHEMTIM. From a speci- 

 men which had been twenty years in con- 

 finement . 152 



Fig. 6. ACTINIA LACEEA 163 



Fig. 7. LUCEENAEIA CAMPANFLATA 168 



Fig. 8. PENTACEINFS ETJEOP^US 176 



Fig. 9. COMATTJLA 183 



Fig. 10. ASTEEOPHYTON 187 



