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regular^ the intervening spaces supporting two or three 

 pores in oblique rows/^ {Fleming.) 



2. Eetepora Beats^ianAj Bean's Netted Coralline, Ellis. 

 (Plate XIX. fig. 73.) . 



Hab. Deep water, rare. Shetland Islands, Jameson; 

 Scarborough, Mr. Bean ; Cape Clear, Ireland, Professor 

 Allman; Orkneys, Prof. E. Porbes; coast of JNTorthumber- 

 land, Mr. W. King ; Shetland, Mr. Barhe. 



Tliis polypidom is fully an inch in height, fixed to other 

 substances by a short, thick, hollow stalk, expanding into a 

 cup-like form. It has a netted appearance, and the cells 

 open only on the upper or inner side. It is a most beau- 

 tiful little coral : a person might tliink that it was formed 

 of fine Honiton lace, which had lost its pliancy by being 

 frozen. The first fragment of it I ever saw I received from 

 my kind friend Major Alexander Martin, of Ai'drossan, who 

 had got it from Shetland. Learning that better specimens 

 of it had been dredged by Mr. Barlie in Shetland, I, 

 through Mrs. Gulson, requested him to send a good speci- 

 men of it for a little to Mrs. Spade, of Armitage Park, 

 StafPordshire, by whose tasteful pencil the beautiful drawing 

 of it was prepared for our Plate, so that in this one case no 

 less than four kind friends have concurred in obliging me. 



