CA R YOPHYLLTA CEA . 



TURBINOLIA DJi. 



THE DEVONSHIRE CUP-CORAL. 



CaryopJiyllia Smithii. 



Plate X. Figs. 12, 13.* 



Specific Character, Plates in five cycles ; base broad; outline generally 

 ovate ; height not exceeding the long diameter. 



Caryophyllia Smithii. Stokes, Zool. Joum. iii. 481; pi. xiii. figs. 1—6. 



Buckland, Bridgevv. Tr. ii. 90; pi. liv. figs. 9 — 



11. Johnston, Br. Zooph. Ed. 2, 19S ; pi. xxxv. 



figs. 4—8. Couch, Corn. Fauna, iii. 72 ; pi. xii. 



fig. 3. Gosse, Dev. Coast, 108 ; pi. v. figs. 1—5. 



M. Edwards, Hist. Corall. ii. 11. 

 cyathus. Fleming, Brit Anim. 508. 

 sessilis. Bellamy, So. Devon, 267 ; pi. xviii. 

 ? Turbinolia borealis. Fleming, Brit. Anim. 509., 

 Cyathina Smithii. Dana, Zooph. 371. M. Edwards and Haime, Ann. 



Sci. Nat. Ser. 3, ix. 288. Gosse, Man. Mar. Zool. 



i. 33 ; fig. 50. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 



CARYOPHYLLIA smithii 

 (slightly magnified). 



Section of corallum. 



CORALLUM. 



Corallum. Simple, constricted in various 

 degrees ; the bn.se generally wider than 

 the summit, and the central region being 

 often less than half the diameter of the 

 latter. Outline sometimes circular, but 

 generally more or less elliptical. Height 

 in general less than the long diameter. 



Ribs. Well-marked on the upper half, 

 less distinct on the lower, studded with 

 fine granules. 



Plates. Forming five cycles, and six 

 systems, but the plates of the fifth cycle 



* Marked in the Plate " Cyathina Smithii." 



