ANTHOZOA HELIANTHOIDA. 



ZoANTHA, Blainv. Man. 308. — Zoocorallia polyactinia, Ehrenb. Corall. 31. — 

 Les ZoANTAiRES, Aiulouin sxiA AI, EdivcDxls in Lam. Anim. s. Vert. ii. 106.^ 

 ZooPHYTA Helianthoida, Johistoti in Mag. Zool. and Bot. i. 448. — Zoantha- 

 RIA, J. E. Gray in Syn. Brit. Mus. 129. 



Fig. 39. 



1 borrow the name of this order from Latreille, but give to 

 it a wider application than it has in the classification of that 

 illustrious naturalist, that it may embrace the madrepores and 

 starred stones, which the observations of Le Sueur, confirmed 

 as they have been by subsequent voyagers, demonstrate to be 

 the products of zoophytes similar, in all essential points, to the 

 naked Actiniae. The order thus corresponds to the class 

 " Zoantlia " of De Blainville, — a name which has the claim of 

 priority, and might have been adopted by me, w^ere it not 

 rather of classical, than ordinal value, and, because its con- 

 junction with Anthozoa appeared inappropriate, as involving a 

 tautology. The term preferred expresses the resemblance 

 which the animals it designates have to the compound or syn- 

 genesious flo\^ ers, — a resemblance which has been very gene- 



