470 Rayed Animals found in Ireland. 



small corallines and shells, very common in protected 

 bays. * 

 Nullipora Lam., Cuv. 



informis Lam. Found on the coast of Ireland. In some 



places dredged up and used as manure, 

 lichenoides Soland. et Ellis. Found encrusting rocks, 

 shells, the stems of marine plants, and corallines, on 

 every part of the coast ; and is conspicuous from its 

 variety of colours, red, purple, and blue, on a white 

 ground. It is certainly not the Mill, fyssoides of 

 Lamarck. 



(nageurs.) 

 Scirpearia Cuv. 



mirabilis Linn. Dredged up in Belfast Lough. 



(alcyons.) 

 ^lcyonium Linn. 



digitatum Linn. Found in Belfast Lough. 



tomentosum Linn., $pongia tomentosa Linn, 



medullare Lam. 



bursa Linn. 

 Spongilla Lam. 



friabilis Esper. Found very common on the shores of 

 the county Monaghan lakes, during the summer 

 months. 



pulvinata Lam., Ephydatia canal ium Fleming. Found 

 adhering to the walls of the locks of the Lagan canal. 

 5pongia Linn. 



oculata Linn. Found on the shore of Belfast Lough. 



stuposa Soland. et Ellis. On the shore of Belfast Lough. 



palmata Soland. et Ellis. On the shore of Belfast Lough. 



dichotoma Linn. On the shore of Belfast Lough. 



digitata Mont. On the shore of Belfast Lough. Base of 

 the stem ferruginous ; the remainder of a pale yellowish 

 brown. 



confervicola. {fig. 67.) With irregular branching shoots, 

 having elongated perfectly cylindric branches, rounded 

 at their extremities, and composed of intersecting spi- 

 culae.f Found growing on Conferva rupestris, at the 

 White House Point; Oct. 1810. Near Whitehead; 

 Sept. 1812. This is, perhaps, one of the smallest species 

 of sponge, the shoots being scarcely a quarter of an 



* If Mr. Templeton would intrust the editor with specimens, they will 

 be characterised in this Magazine, and the specimens carefully returned. — 



\ Spongia complicata of Montagu. — G. J. 



