202 HISTORY OF BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 



In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare 

 Thy gooduess beyoud thought, and power divine." 



Genus XVIII. PAYONARIA, Cuvier. 



Gen. Char. Polype-mass linear-elongate, quadrangular. Po- 

 lypes sessile, retractile, arranged subspirally on one side only of 

 the posterior lialf of the rachis. Tentacula with intermediate 

 spinules. — Dr. Johnston. 



1. Pavonaria quadrangularis, Mr. M' Andrew. 



Hab. West of Scotland, Mr. M'Andrew ; near Oban, 

 Mr. William Keddie. 



This is a very extraordinary creature, dredged in our 

 Scottish western sea, by Mr. M'Andrew, of Liverpool, who 

 has added so much to our British fauna. There is only 

 one locality, as yet, in which it has been got in this country 

 — off the island of Kerrcra, near Oban ; and the exact place 

 can be so distinctly described, that my esteemed friend, Mr. 

 W. Keddie (to whom I have often been greatly indebted) 

 having got a description of the locality before setting out 

 for a short residence at Oban, went to the very spot, and 

 dredged it in considerable abundance. I can assure my 

 friends that if they choose as fine a day as I was favoured 

 with the first time I sailed from Crinan to Oban, and on to 



