ANTHOZOA HYDROIDA. 



I.— TUBULARINA. 



Ehrenberg Corall. des roth. Meeres, p. 70. 



FAMILY— CORYNID.E. 



TuBULARi;E pars, Pallas Spic. Zool, fasc. x. p. 36-7. Hydr^ pars, MuUer Zool. 

 Dan. prod. p. 230. Genus Coryne, Lamarck Anira. s. Vert. ii. 61. Flemmi 

 Brit. Anim. .553. BlainviUe Actinolog. 471. Sclnveigger Handb. 409 — Les Co- 

 RiNES, Ctivier Reg. Anim. iii. 295. — Family Corynid^, Johnston in Trans. Berw. 

 Club (1836), p. 107. CoRYNAiD^, Gray in Syn. Brit. Mus. (1840), p. 76. 



Character. — Polypes rooted., fl^^shy or sheathed in a horny 

 skin, simple or ramous, the tipper part dilated into a clavated 

 head armed ivith tentacula, which are either irregular or sub- 

 hiserial, and are variable in number : mouth terminal : ovi- 

 form capsides pullulating in clusters from the bases of the 

 tentacula and naked. 



1. Clava,* Gmelin. 



Character. — Polypes single, fleshy, more or less club-headed, 

 but contractile and mutable in form : the tentacula scattered, 

 smooth, filiform, varying in number ; mouth terminal and 

 naked. 



The genus is thus defined hy Gmehn : " Corpus earnosum, 

 gregarium clavatum, pedunculo tereti afHxum : apertura unica 

 verticah." It is founded on an animal described, in 1775, by 

 Otto Frederick Muller, in a paper in the " Beschaftlgungen 

 der Berhnischen Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde," for 

 a transcript of which I am indebted to my friend Dr. W. 

 Baird. The description is written in Mviller's usual interest- 

 ing manner, and is so full that no one can mistake the 



* Clava, a club. Agassiz gives Oken as the author of the genus. 



