CORYNE RAMOSA. 269 



4. CORTNE FRUTICOSA, HiuclcS. 



CoRYNE FRUTicosA, — Ifiiic/cs, iu Auu. Nat. Hist., scr. 3, vol. viii, p. 158, [pi. vi. Brit. 

 Ilydr. Zooph., p. 4-i, pi. vii, fig. 2. 



TROPHOSOME. — •liYDUocADLTJs busliy, slender, slightly and irregularly annulatcd 

 throughout, much and irregularly branched, with the perisauc delicate, branches erect, 

 long, closely set. Hydranths swollen below, tapering above ; tentacles about 

 twenty, rather long, witli small capitula, a verticil of about five immediately below 

 the mouth, the rest scattered. 



GONOSOME. — GoNOPHORES densely clustered, chiefly about the lower part of 

 the body ; sessile ; very large when mature. 



IlahHat. —On Fuci. 



Batlnjmetrical Bistrihution. — Literal zone. 



Locality. — Exmoutli, Rev. T. Ilincks. 



I have never seen this species, and have contented myself with simply giving Mr. Hincks' 

 description of it. He fm-ther tells us that it " forms dense clustered bushy masses on Fucus." 

 It is plainly very nearly allied to the Cori/ne pusilla — so nearly that, though I have here accepted 

 Mr. Hincks' determination of it, I feel much tempted to regard it as a mere variation of that 

 species, more slender and less distinctly annulatcd than the typical form. 



*^* 5. CoRYNE RAMOSA, Sars. 



Stipula RAMOSA, — Suvs, Biclrag til Soedj'reiies Naturhistoric, p. 4, tab. i, fig. 1. 

 Syxcoryne kamosa, — Ehrenber(j, Corallenthiere, Abliandl. Akad. Wisseus., Berlin, 1832, 

 p. 295. 



TROPHOSOME. — Hydrgcatjlus attaining a height of fiom one to two inches, 

 slender, much ramified, with the branches subalternate, and very divergent from the 

 stem at their origin ; perisarc annulatcd. Hydraxths elongate, subcylindrical, with 

 from twenty to twenty-five tentacles. 



GONOSOME. — GoNOPHOREs oval, shortly pedunculate, springing from among the 

 tentacles towards the proximal end of the hydrantli. 



