THE FAMILY OF THE DESMACIDINAE 135 



Grant. Ed. Phil. Journ. XIII p. 104, XIV p. 118. 



Grant. New Phil. Journ. I p. 347 , II p. 128 and 138. 



Blainville , Actinol. pi. 94. — 



Fleming. Brit. Anim. p. 520. — 



Blainville. Actinol. p. 532. — 

 Spic. tr. ac. 



tr. ac. sp. 



tr. ac. f. 



C/D 



anc^. 

 Loc. Frith of Forth , Hebrides , Orkeney's , Shetland , 

 Welsh and Irish Coast, Hastings. 



Genus VO. Crambe ^) Nov. Gen. 



Irregular, branched, siliceous corpuscules loith axial canals. 

 Rods smooth or spined. Anchors equiended. 



1. Cramhe harpago. Vosm. 

 Synon. Suberites crambe 0. S. '62. 



Suberites fruticosus 0. S. '62. 

 Litt. Schmidt. Sp. A. M. p. 66. 

 Spic. tr. ac. 

 tr°. ac. 



ac^ (slender, flexuous). 

 anc^3. 

 ? C/3 

 ? A 



irregular corpuscules. 

 „foliato-peltate". 

 Loc. Lissa , Sebenico , Lesina. 



I have had occasion to examine the original specimens 

 of Schmidt preserved in Graz, and I have found both 

 Suberites crambe and fruticosus to be identical. Schmidt has 

 not seen the anchors , and so arranged this Sponges under 



1) Kp«f</3jj , cabbrge. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. 11. 



