CORYNIDiE : CORYNE. 39 



them to contain several ovules, which, by their aggregation, 

 formed the nucleus. They were globular, smooth, of a faint 

 rose colour, and invested with a pellucid membrane. Many 

 had an indentation in one side, and others were kidney- 

 shaped or ovate ; and, while most of them seemed to be 

 homogeneous, in others the germinal vesicle was easily per- 

 ceived, sometimes near the centre, and sometimes placed 

 near the edge. They did not move ; but, as the capsules 

 dissolved away, they fell down or hung about the parent 

 heads, without suffering further change. This was owing, no 

 doubt, to the decay induced by commencing putridity in the 

 water ; for, under favourable circumstances, they would have 

 become embryos somewhat resembling Medusee, and furnished 

 with four long flexible tentacles. 



1. 0. pusiLLA. — Gsertner.* 



Plate II. 



Coryne pusilla, Gariner in Pall. Spec. Zool. fasc. x. 40, tab. 4, fig. 8, copied in 

 Encyclop. Method, pi. 69, fig. 15, 16. — Tubiilaria Coryne, Pallas in lib. cit. Ttirt. 

 Gmel. iv. 668. TuH. Brit. Faun. 210. — Hydra ramosa, Fabric. Faun. Groenl. 

 348. — Coryne glandulosa, Lam. Anim. s. Vert. ii. 62 : 2de edit, ii. 74. Fleming 

 in Edin. Phil. Journ. ii. 87; and viii. 295. Flem. Phil. Zool. ii. 616, tab. v. fig. 2. 

 Fkm, Brit. Anim. 553. Johnston in Trans. Newc, Soc. ii. 253 ; and in Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. V. 631, fig. 110. Blainv. Actinol. 471. pi. 85, fig. 3, 3 a, copied from 

 Gsertner. — Syncoryna pusilla, Ekrenb. Coral, des roth. Meer. 70. Van Bemden 

 Les Tubul. 53, pi. 3, fig. 1-10. — Hermia glandulosa, Johns. Brit. Zooph. Ill, vign. 

 no. 12, and pi. 4, fig. 1, 2. Thompson m Ann. Nat. Hist. v. 249. Hassall in 

 Ann. and Mag. N. Hist. vii. 283, pi. 6, fig. 2, Couch Zooph. Corn. 3 : and Com. 

 Faun. iii. 12, pi. l,fig. 3. 



Hah. — On sea- weeds and stones between tide-marks ; on old shells, 

 and often parasitical on Tubularia indivisa. 



Polypes gregarious, adherent by a tubular fibre which creeps 

 along the surface of the object on which they grow, seldom more 

 than an inch in height, irregularly branched ; the stem filiform, 



* Gaertner, Joseph, M.D., a native of Wurtemburg, bom in 1732 ; elected F.R.S. 

 in 1761 ; died in 1791. Having visited England, he made several zoological dis- 

 coveries on the southern coast, published in the Phil. Trans., and the Spicilegia 

 Zoologica of Pallas. He is celebrated for his work " De Fructibus et Seminibus 

 Plantarum." There is an interesting biographical sketch of him in Thomson's 

 Histovy of the Royal Society., p. 46-7. 



