PLATE XTV 



EUDENDRIUM CAPILLARE, EuDENURIUM IXSIGNE,' EuDENDRIUM VAGINATUM. 



Figs. 



1. Eudendriion capillare, male colony, magnitied. The sporosacs are bithalaniic, and the 



hydranths which carry them arc all atrophied and converted into pseudo-blastostyles. 



2. A colony of Eudendrium cajjiUare, natural size. 



3. An atrophied hydranth of Eudendrum capillare, carrying female sporosacs. The spadix 



curving round the ovum. 



4. A portion of a male colony of Eudendrum hisigne. One of the hydranths loaded with 



sporosacs, 



5. A colony o^ Eudendrium insigne, natural size. 



6. Summit of a hydranth-bearing ramulus, from a female colony of Eudendrium insigne, carrying 



sporosacs. The spadix curving round the young ovum. 



7. Eudendrium vaginal urn, portion of a colony, magnified. A young hydranth-bud, as yet 



destitute of tentacles, is seen to be enclosed in a delicate chitinous capsule, while a sheath- 

 like extension of the perisarc invests the body of the mature hydranths. 



8. Eudendrium vaginatum ; a colony, natural size. 



^ Named " humile " in the plate. For the reasons of change of name, see the description of the 

 species, page 337. 



