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HYDROIDS COLLECTED BY THE " HUXLEY " FROM 



LIST OF SPECIES, AND THE STATIONS AT WHICH 

 THEY OCCURRED. 



STATIONS AND THEIR CHARACTERISTIC HYDROIDS. 



Station I. East side of Parson's Bank. 75 fathoms. 



At this station an ordinary dredge was dragged for about a mile 

 over a sandy bottom. Here were found rooted in the sand Aglaophenia 

 myriophyllum and Antennularia antennina. which may be regarded as 

 the characteristic Hydroids of this ground. Attached to shells and 

 worm-tubes {Chmtopterus) were colonies of Sertularella polyzonias, 

 Diphasia pi/iaster.^ and Diphasia tamarisca, and on a broken pecten 

 shell was a nice compact colony of Cuspidella grandis. Eight other 



