ON ALCYONIUM PULMONIS INSTAK LOBATUM ELLIS. 265 



(2) Alcyonium taherosiivi. J. Bauh. hist. Ill p. 817. In the 



"Historia Plantarum universalis" of Joh. Bauhin and 

 Joh. Henr. Cherler dated 1651 there is in v. 3 lib. 39 p. 817 

 a copy of the figure from Imperato, with the description 

 Alcyonium tuberosum. This reference also must be assigned 

 to the sponge. 



(3) Ficus substantia inter Spongiani et Alcyonium mcdice. Marsil. 



hist. mar. p. 87 tab. 16 n. 79. This reference is to the 

 "Histoire physique de la Mer" by L. F. Marsilli dated 

 1725. The passage there reads exactly : " Fiyuc de substance 

 d^Eponge & d'Alcion, nomm^e ^j«?' Trionfetti, Alcyonium 

 tuberosum, forma ficus Imperati." The coasts of Barbary are 

 given as locality. This reference also, as may be seen from 

 the figure, t. 16, f. 79, without doubt has to do with a sponge 

 and Ficulina ficus is indicated. A copy of this figure is to be 

 found also in Esper (1806). 



(4) Alcyonium quintum antirpiorum. Mercat. metall, arm. 6. c. 6. 



p. 102. In his " Metallotheca Yaticana" dated 1717 

 Mercati describes, under the title "Z>c quinto antiquorum 

 alcyonio" a form which is also a sponge and must be regarded 

 as a synonym of Ficulina ficus. The figure bears the legend 

 " Alcyonium quintum." 



(5) Pulmo marinus alter Rondelctii. Eaj. syn. p. 31. n. 3. In the 



3rd Edition of his "Synopsis methodica Stirpium 

 Britannicarum" dated 1724, J. Bay puts forward the 

 Pulmo marinus alter Eondel. as a synonym for Bursa 

 marina. — Rondelet's species cannot be determined. The 

 Bursa marina is on the other hand an Alga. The reference 

 from Bay does not therefore come into consideration either 

 in connection with the sponge or the ascidian. In the first 

 edition of this work dated 1690, which Lendenfeld (1896) 

 quotes, I do not find '^ Pulmo marinus" mentioned. 

 Some references, also relating to the sponge, which are lacking in 

 the list of synonyms in Pallas, should now be added. In the first 

 place a reference which is to be found in Bonanni, in his "Mus^eum 

 Kircherianum" dating from 1709 and reads: " Aliud Alcionum e:c 

 Mari Adriatico acceptura visitur, quod Tuberosum vocavit Impcratus.^ 

 Further the " Alcionio minore in figura di fico frutto " mentioned and 

 figured byGinanni (1757) in his "Opere postume," v. 1 p. 41 

 t. 47 f. 98. Finally the 'Alcyonium tuberosum Ficus forma Imp." men- 

 tioned by Battarr a in a new edition of the "Museum Kircherianum" 

 dated 1773, p. 179 (note). 



