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ANTHOZOA HYDROIDA. 



Mr. Templeton has figured a zoophyte under the name of Hydra 

 CORYNARIA (Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. 419, fig. 58), which is more akin to 



Hydractinia than 

 '^ ^S- 4. to any other known 



genus. It was 

 " found adhering 

 to Fucus vesicu- 

 losus, at White 

 House Point, Bel- 

 fast Lough, October 

 1810." The figure 

 represents it as a 

 branched animal 

 with enlarged cla- 

 vate heads, en- 

 circled, round the 

 truncated apex, 

 with tentacula ra- 

 ther shorter than 

 the diameter. Dr. Fleming has described the same animal by the 

 name of Hydra lutea (Brit. An. 554) ; and Professor Jameson gives 

 a Hydra lutea as a native of the Frith of Forth. (Wern. Mem. i. 

 5G6.) Being satisfied that the species was distinct from both the 

 Hydra lutea and the H. corynaria of Bosc, I named it H. littoralis. 

 (Brit. Zooph. 98.) It may be the same, however, with Hydra 

 viinuticornis of M idler (Zool. Dan. prod. no. 2788), but a more 

 satisfactory description is required. 



3. Coryne"^^, Gsertner. 



Character. — Polype sheathed in a thin horny membrane or 

 tube, branched and subphytoidal^ the apices of the branches 

 polypous, clubbed, and furnished with short tentacula with 

 globular tips and arranged without order; mouth terminal: 

 ovules separate, very shortly pedicled. 



When Sars and Ehrenberof determined on the subdivision 

 of the genus Coryne of Lamarck, they assumed as the type 

 of their new genus the Coryne pusilla of Gsertner, and took, 

 as the representative of their genus Coryne, the Hydra squa- 



* CoiTne=clava=a club. 



