ANTHOZOA ASTEROIDA. 



ZoocoRALiA OCTACTINIA, Ehrenberg, Corall. des roth. Meer. 53. (1834.) — Les 

 Alcyoniens, Amiouin and il/. Edwards in Lam. An. s. Vert. iii. 105. (1836.) — 

 ZooPHYTA Asteroid A, JoJmston in Mag. Zool. and Bot. i. 447. (1836.) — 

 ZooPHYTARiA, Blainvillc, Man. 496. (1834.)— G'ra^' in Syn. Brit. Mus. 131. 

 (1842.) 



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On a cursory view the polypidoms of the three families em- 

 braced in this order appear very dissimilar, and accordingly, by 

 many recent authors, they have been scattered over the class, 

 and placed widely asunder. The affinity between them, how- 

 ever, is generally acknowledged, and had been distinctly per- 

 ceived by some of the earliest zooj^hytologists. Thus Bohadsch 

 found so much in common between the typical Pennatula) and 

 a species of Alcyonium, that he has not hesitated to describe 

 them as members of the same genus ; and although the more 

 systematic character of Pallas prevented him falling into this 

 error, — if error it can indeed be called, — he did not the less 



