ANGUINELLA PxVLMATA. 539 



Geuiis ANGUINELLA, Van Beneden. 



Dcr. from anguis, a snake ; iicamed from its supposed affinity with the 



genus Anffuinaria. 



Anguinella, Van Benedeu, Rech. sur les Bryoz. (1844): Busk. 



Generic Character. — Zoarium consisting of an erect 

 common stem, giving ojf branches at intervals, on which the 

 cells are borne ; the ectocyst incrusted by earthy matter, 

 opaque. Zocecia cylindrical. Polypides ivithout a giz- 

 zard. 



Anguinella palmatAj Van Beneden. 



Plate LXXVII. figs. 5,5a; and Woodcat, fig. 30. 



Anguinella paljiata, Van Beneden, Recherclies, &c. (Mem, Bruxelles, 

 xviii.), 58, pi. vii. figs. IS-24 : Busk, Q. J. Micr. Sc. i\. 

 (1856),95, pi. vi. figs. 1, 2. 



Zoarium attached by the base, dendroid, thickly branched ; 

 the branches clothing the stem from the base to the 

 summit, more or less palmate, of an earthy-brown 

 colour. Zooecia cylindrical, irregularly distributed on 

 the branches, with which they are continuous below, 

 slightly bent inwards. 



Polypides with 10 short tentacles, clothed with remark- 

 ably long cilia. 



Heiffht from 3 or 4 to 6 or 8 inches. 



^b' 



Van Beneden likens this curious species to a fir-tree 

 clothed with branches to its very base. Mr. Busk gives 

 a better idea of it in saying that it " resembles a small 

 Fucus covered with mud," 



