264 CORYNIDiE. 



CORYNIDjE. 



TROPHOSOME. — Hydrocaulus developed. Htdeaxths with scattered or more 

 or less spirally disposed capitate tentacles. 



GONOSOME. — GoxopiiOEES fixed Sporosacs. 



COEYNE, Gartner. 

 Name — From Kopvvn, a club ; in allusion to the form of the hydrantlis. 



TunuLARiAj — Gmelin. 

 Sy NCOKYN E, — Ehrenberg. 

 Hermia, — Johnston, 



TROPHOSOME. — Hydeopiiyton consisting of a simple or branching hydeo- 

 CAULUS, rooted by a creeping filiform iiydeorhiza : the whole invested by a chitinous 

 PEEiSAEC. Hydranths clavifomi, with scattered capitate tentacles. 



GONOSOME. — Spoeosacs developed from the body of the hydranth. 



The genus Curi/ne was founded liy .Joseph G;a-tner, the author of the famous botanical work 

 'De Fnictibus et Scminibus Plantarum.' It is described in a letter written by Gartner to Pallas, 

 an extract from which, with a figure of the species on which Gartner founded his genus, was pub- 

 lished by Pallas hi 1774, in the tenth fasciculus of his ' Spicilegia Zoologica.' 



The limits of Corijnc, however, as a well-defined generic group, were afterwards disturbed 

 by the introduction into it of certain forms not contemplated by its founder. In this way the 

 lli/i/ra isqua/jiala of 0. E. JMiillcr — though a separate genus under the name of Clava had been 

 constituted for it by Gmelin — came to be included in the genus Corijnr, and we find Bosc/ 

 Lamarck," and Cuvicr" adopting this association. 



^ ' Hist. Nat. (Ics Vers.,' torn, ii, p. 230. 



" ' An. s. Vert.' 



^ ' Rca^nc Anininl,' 1817. 



