372 HISTORY OP BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 



Ellis found this little coralline creeping on the surface of 

 FlusU'ci foliacea, each of the vesicles having a black spot, 

 like the spawn of frogs, or rather like grapes with the 

 seeds in them. AYhen seen through the microscope, he 

 saw that these grape-like bodies were clusters of very lively 

 polypes, extending their tentacula in pursuit of prey. What 

 he had seen as dark spots were the dead polypes in their cells. 



3. Valkeria pustulosa. Pimpled Coralline, Ellis; Dicho- 

 tomous Tubular Coralline. 



Hab. Isle of Wight, Ellis ; Salcombe, Eev. T. Hincks ; 

 Cove Harbour, J. V. Thompson; Youghal, Miss Ball; 

 Belfast Bay, W. Thompson; Dubhn Bay, A. H. Hassall; 

 Cornwall, rare, Mr. Peach ; Leith shore, rare, D. L., junior. 



It appears through the microscope full of pustules, with 

 a speck in the middle of each. It is two or three inches 

 in height. The branches are perforated by a double row of 

 holes, in which there are polypes with eight tentacula. 



Genus XXVII. BOWERBAIN^KIA, Farre. 

 Gen. Char. Polypidom confervoid, matted or irreg-ularly 

 branched; the cells sessile, unilateral, irregular, the inflected 

 portion with a spinous or iilamented rim. Polypes ascidian, 



with a stron"j o:izzard. 



