ANTHOZOA ASTEROIDA. 



FAMILY— PENNATULID^. 



Pennatula, Lin. Syst. x. 818. Pall. Elench. 362. Zzm. Syst. 1321. — Les Pen- 

 NATULES, Cuv. Reg. Anim. iii. 317. — Polypi natantes. Lam. Anim. s. Vert, 

 ii. 413. — Pennatulid^, Flem, Brit. Anim. 507. J. E. Gray in Syn. Brit. Mus. 

 132. — Penn^ MARiNiE, Scliweig. Handb. 401. — Pennatularia, Blainv. Man. 

 512. — Calamites, Latr. Fam. Nat. 543. — Pennatulina, Ehrmi>, Corall. des 

 roth, Meer. 63. 



16. Pennatula,'" Cuvier. 



Ohakacter. Polype-mass free, plumous., the shaft sub- 

 cylindrical, naked beneath, pennated above ; pimia. tivo-ranked, 

 spreading, flattened, and polypiferous along the upper margin. 



1 . P. PHOSPHOBEA, purplish-red, the base of the smooth stalk 

 pale ; rachis roughened with close-set papilla, and furrowed 

 doion the middle ; pinna close ; polype-cells uniserial, tubular, 

 with spinous apertures. Sir R. Sibbald. 



Penna marina, Sib. Scot. ii. lib. tert. 28. — P. rubra, Bohad. Anim. Mar. 101, pi. 8, 

 fig. 1 — 3. — Pennatula phosphorea, Lin. Syst. 1332. Ellis in Phil. Trans, liii. 

 420, pi. 19, fig.l— 5. Mull. Zool. Dan. prod. 255, no. 3075. Esper Pflanz. Pennat. 

 tab. 3, fig. 1—3. Oliv. Zool. Adriat. 294. Wem. Mem. i. h%b. TuH. Brit. Faun. 

 217. Stew. Elem. ii. 450. Blumenh. Man. 274. Lam. Anim. s. Vert. ii. 426 : 

 2de 6dit. ii. 643. Cuv. Reg. Anim. iii. 318. Flem. Brit. Anim. 507. Stark 

 Elem. ii. 420. Jolmsto7i in Trans. Newc. Soc. ii. 248, pi. 7. Roget Bridgew. 

 Treat, i. 174, fig. 71, 72. (bad.)— P. rubra. Pall. Elench. 368.— P. Britannica, 

 Ellis and Soland. Zooph. 61. — Pennatole fosforea, Delle Chiaie Anim. s. Vert. 

 Nap. iii. 4, and 11, tav. 31, fig. 15. 



Hah. Deep water. " It is found in great plenty sticking to the 

 baits on tbe fishermen's lines, round the coasts of this kingdom ; es- 



* Formed from Penna, a quill, — which the species so remarkably resemble that we 

 may say in the words of Lamarck, " II semble, en effet, que la nature, en formant ce 

 corps animal compose, ait voulu copier la forme exterieure d'une plume d'oiseau." — 

 Anim. s. Vert. ii. 425. 



