Fig. VI. 



FAMILY 11. TUBULARIAD^. 



2. CoRYNE,* Gsertner. 

 Character. — Polypes Jixed, single^ naked, cylindrical, 07' 

 claviform hut contractile, the head with scattered Jilifoi'm smooth 

 tentncula •■ mouth ? 



1. C. SQUAMATA, body more or less clavate ; the tentacula 

 shorter than the body. Gaertner.-f- 



Plate II. 



Hydra squamata, Mull. Zool. Dan. prod. 230, no. 2786. Zool. Dan. tab. 



iv. fig. 1-3. Fabric. Faun. Groenl. 347 Polyporum species margine 



conchee insidentes, Bast. Opusc. Subsec. i. 44, tab. 5, fig. 2, c Tubu- 



* Coryne = clava = a club. 



■)■ Goertner, Joseph, M. D. a native of Wurtemburg, born in 1 732 ; elected 

 F. R. S. in 1761 ; died in 1791. Having visited England, he made several 

 zoological discoveries on the southern coast, published in the Phil. Trans., and 

 the Spicilegia Zoologica of Pallas. He is celebrated for his work " De Fruc- 

 tibus et Seminibus Plantarum." There is an interesting biographical sketch of 

 him in Thomson's Histonj of the Royal Societt/, p. 46-7. 



