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spects, the British coral seems to be closely related to the one living 

 in the Mediterranean." W. King. 



19. Salicoknaria,* Cuvier. 



Character. — Polppidoms plant-like^ calcareous., dicliotomous ; 

 the branches cylindrical., regularly jointed., with immersed 

 rhomhoidal cells diverging from the axis, disposed in quincunx, 

 and opening on the surface ; the aperture lateral, transverse, 

 somewhat labiate. 



1. S. FARciMiNoiDEs, cells rhomholdal, the aperture central. 



Plate LXVI. Fig. 6, 7. 



Corallina fistiilosa fragilis, Ruii Hist. i. Go. — Corallina fistiilosa fragilis, intemodiis 

 prselongis Ireyibiis, albis, farciminum modo catenatis, Pluken. Phytog. pi. 26, fig. 2. 

 — Bugle Corallhie, Fdlis Corall. 46, no. 1, pi. 23, fig. «, A, B, C. — Eschara fistii- 

 losa, Lin. Syst. edit. 10. 804. — Cellularia Salicornia, Pall. Elench. 61. — Tubularia 

 fistulosa, Lin. Syst. 1302. Oliv. Zool. Adriat. 267. Bvrk. Syn. i. 214.— Cellaria 

 farciminoides, Ellis and Soland. Zooph. 26. — Isis hippiiris, Fair. Faun. Groenl. 

 427. — Cellaria Salicomia, Lam. An. s. Vert. ii. 135 : and 2de ^dit. ii. 176. Bosc 

 Vers. iii. 129, pi. 28, fig. 6. Lamour. Exposit. Method. 5 : Corall. 55. Blainv. 

 Actinolog. 455, pi. 77, fig^ 1. — Salicorniaires, Cuv. Reg. Anim. iii. 303. — Salicor- 

 naria dichotoma, Schweig. Handb. 428. — Salicorniaria fistulosa, Templeton in Mag. 

 N. Hist. ix. 469. — Farcimia fistulosa, Flem. Brit. Anim. 534. .Johnston in Trans. 

 Newc. Soc. ii. 266. — Cellaria fistulosa, .S'. V. Wood in Ann. and Mag. N. Hist. xiii. 

 17. — Farcimia salicomia, Johns. Brit. Zooph. 295, pi. 37, fig. 6, 7. Couch Zooph. 

 Cornw. 58 : Corn. Faun. 129, pi. 20, fig. 3. 



Hah. On corallines and old shells from deep water, not uncommon. 

 " Is of frequent occurrence on the Dublin coast, where it is found in 

 dense masses attached to oysters and other substances in deep water. 

 With regard to Mr. Ilassall's Farcimia sinuosa, I think it is nothing- 

 more than a very common variety of Salicornia. I have observed a 

 considerable difference in the size of the cylinders, but this often oc- 

 curs in the same individual. At Carrickfergus, on the Antrim coast, 

 the zoophyte assumes a very singular habit : it is found in great 

 abundance, but of very small size, parasitical on Desmarestia acu- 

 leata ; consequently the joints in this case were small to suit their 

 position on the slender fronds of the Desmarestia, and each individual 

 consisted of from one to three joints." W. 3PCoUa. 



One of the finest of British zoophytes. Polypidom from one to 



* Salicomaria, — formed from Salicorma, a salt-marsh plant which the zoophyte 

 resembles in external habit. Lamouroux appropriated the name Cellaria to this 

 group, and Blainville has followed him. Cuvier gave it the name Salicomaria in 

 1817 ; and it was adopted by Schweigger in 1820. In 1828 Dr. Fleming called the 

 genus Farcimia. 



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