BOTBYLLUS SOHLOSSEET. 



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EXOLAXD. Common on nearly all the rocky parts 

 of the coast. [Brighton, Sussex (Merrifield). Fal- 

 raouth Harbonr (Schlosser, 7/or^.sv) ; Gwyllyn-vase, 

 Swanpool, Harbonr, etc., Falmouth, Cornwall, 



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IIIKLAND. Belfast, Antrim ; Strangford Lough, 

 Down ; and Isle of Lambay, Co. Dublin, on stones 

 (Thompson^. 



SCOTLAND. [Leith shore, Firth of Forth (.l.iii<'xou}. 

 Firth of Clyde (Nonuau)]. 



First record. Schlosser, [1757 (roll. 1755)]. 



[If this species is, as Rondelet inferred, the sea- 

 grape of Pliny (' Hist. nat. Mundi,' lib. ix, cap. 2), it 



FIG. 117. The earliest figure of Botryllus Scldosseri. Natural size. 

 (From Gesiier's copy oi' Eondelet's figure of Uva marina, op. cit. 

 infra, 1555. J 



is one of the earliest known Tunicates. Rondelet 

 first described and figured it in 1555, in his ' Universse 

 Aquatilium Historic ' (vol. ii, p. 130). His figure 

 has been copied by Gesner (' Hist. Anim.' 1558, 

 p. 1248) ; Aldrovandi (' De reliq. Anim. exsang.' 1606, 

 p. 592); and Jonston ('Hist, nat, Exsang. aqnat.' 

 1650, pi. xx). Gesner's figure, being the clearest, 

 has been photographed for reproduction here (fig. 



117). 



Copies of other early figures are also given : after 

 Ellis (1757), Borlase (1758), and Gaertner (1774). 



The earliest discovery of the species in British seas 

 was published as " An Account of a curious, fleshy, 

 coral -like Substance ; in a letter to Mr. Peter Collinson, 

 F.R.S. from Dr. John Albert Schlosser, M.D. F.R.S. 



