PLUMATELLIDyE : PLUMATELLA. 



403 



1, 727. Hassall in Ann. and Mag. N. Hist, x, 153. G. J. AUman in Proc. R. 

 Irish Acad, an, 1843. \V. Thonij>son, in Ann. Nat. Hist, v, 254. Alhnan in 

 Ann. and Mag. N. Hist, xiii, 330. — Naisa repens, Lamour. Coral. 98.* 



Fig. 7G. 



Hah. " On the under side of stones. Lochmill-loch, Fife," Flem- 

 ing. " Not unfrequent in a rivulet of beautifully clear water, at 

 Norton, in the county of Durham," John Hogg, Esq. Tn a small 

 quarry pond in the parish of Stevenston, Ayrshire, Rev. D. Lands- 

 horough. In rejectamenta on the shores of Lough Erne, Sept. 1837, 

 W. Thomi^son. Near Glasgow, Dr. Scolder. In a pond in the vici- 

 nity of Cheshunt, A. H. Hassall. Bandon, Glandore, Dublin, G. J. 

 A llman. 



" Stem extending several inches, irregularly branched, slightly 

 enlarging towards the aperture, dilatable; tentacular margin di- 

 vided into two lobes, tentacula ciliated in opposite directions. Besides 

 a gullet, stomach, and gut, there is a distinct rectum, terminating in 

 a tubular orifice seated externally to the tentacular margin, out of 



* To this synonymy it may be useful to add the following, communicated to me, 

 along with a dried specimen of the polj'pidom, by J. Hogg, Esq. " A small piece 

 of it is figured in Scliceff, Armpolyp. tab. i. fig. 1, 2, published in 1754. The next 

 representation of it is in tab. 19, fig. 1 — 5, in the Bulletin Philomatique (not Bull, 

 des Sciences Nat.) p, 157, no, 81, an 12 (de la Republique) = 1 804, belonging 

 to an extract from a memoir by Vaucher on the fresh- water Tubulariaj : there fig. 1. 

 much resembles the polypary in its natural state, but the animal magnified is not 

 near so like as that figured in the former work : howerer neither plates do justice to 

 the polypes." 



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