II. SERTULARINA. 



Ehrenberg Corall. dcs roth, Meer. p. 73. 

 Fig. 6. 







FAMILY— SERTULARIAD^. 



Genus Sertulari^ pars, Pall. Blench. 106. Lm. Syst. 1306. Soland. Zooph. 32. — 

 Sertulariees, pars, Lamour, Expos. Meth. 9. — SERTULARiADiE, pars, Flem. 

 Brit. Anim. 538. — Les Sehtularies, pars, Blai?iv. Actinolog. 472. — Sertula- 

 RiADiE, Johnston in Trans. Berw. CI. 107. Gray in Syn. Brit. Mus. 76. 



Character. — Polypidoms plant-like, horny, rooted, variously 

 branched, tubular, filled loith a semifiuid organic pulp ; the 

 polypes contained within sessile cells, which are variously, but 

 always determinately, disposed along the sides of the vnain stalk 

 or branchlets, and are never terminal : ova contained in horny 

 deciduous vesicles scattered over the polypidom : embryos 

 planaria-like. 



