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description of Agardh is, " Radix, s. a. s. Frondes primarice capil- 

 lares, tubulosffi, sesquiunciales vel parum ultra, capillum porcinum 

 crassitie duplo superantes, eandemque crassitiem per totam lougitu- 

 dinem servantes, a basi ad apicem totae annulosa-rugos^, obtusoe, 

 dichotomse. Eami frondi veluti appositi, basi parumper bulbosi, 

 cfeteruui frondi primarias similes, ejusdemque crassitiei. Substantia 

 flexilis fere confervoidea ; exsiccatce satis tenax, nee, ut in coeteris, 

 fragilis. Color corneo-viridescens, subpellucidus : Slccata cbartoe 

 parum vel laxe adhseret." — The applicability of this description to 

 our Goryne is evident, and hence the latter has the following 

 synonymes : — Tubularia muscoides, Lin. Syst. 1302 (exclus. syn.) 

 OUv. Zool. Adriat. 276. Agardh in Kongl. Vet. Acad. Handling. 

 1816, 256, tab. 7, fig. 1, a. b. Lamour. Expos. Method. 17, tab. 

 68, fig. 6, 7. Tho7ripson in Ann. Nat. Hist. v. 250. — Fistularia 

 muscoides, lliill. Zool. Dan. prod. 254. — Fistulana muscoides. 

 Fabric. Faun. Groenl. 442. 



4. 0. Chamissonis, " semipollicaris, nigricans, minor (priori valde 

 affinis), prole coUum cingente." — Coryna ramosa, Chamisso and 

 Eysenhardt in Nov. Act. Phys. Med. Acad. Cur. x. pt. ii. 370, tab. 

 33, fig. 3. — Syncoryna Chamissonis, Ehrenb. Corall, roth. Meer. 71. 

 Van Beneden Mem. sur les Tubul. 55. Ann. Nat. Hist. xv. 249. — 

 " Cor. ramosa, nob. ; stirpe ramosa, ramulis apice clavigeris, clava 

 cylindrica, filamentis apice nodiferis obsita, basi gemmifera." — " In 

 freto La Manche, fuco adhnerens. — A Coryne pusilla, Cuv. (Pallas, 

 Spic. Zool. X. 4 — 8) unica praster nostram specie ramosa, difFert 

 forma clavse, et gemmis in ejus basi. Cum autem de metamorphosi 

 animalium hujus generis observationes nuUas habeamus, species 

 nostra cum C. pusilla eo modo fortasse convenit, ut gemmae, in clava 

 inclusce (unde crassior videtur), ad basin clavae seponantur ideoque 

 C. pusilla in ramosam commutetur." Chamisso and Eysenhardt. — 

 Van Beneden thinks that the species has the closest affinity to his 

 Syncoryna Listerii ; — they are alike, he says, in habit and in size, 

 but the difference in the position of the ovules is great and important. 

 Our observations, on the contrary, lead us to believe that this 

 character is one of no value. Van Beneden gives the " coast of Eng- 

 land" as the habitat, but this is a mistranslation of the Latin — 

 " fretum Anglicum" — of Ehrenberg. 



5. G. Sarsii, " semipollicaris, capillacea, tubulis J^'" — j-V'" crassis, 

 laevibus ; gemmis elongatis, arrectis ; parce ramosa. Masc, tentac. 

 10 — 16; Fern, globosis, cirris elongatis; oculis exquisite rubris ; 

 campanula membrana perforata, clausa. — Ha]). In fissuris rupium. 



