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67. Umbellula grcenlandica. 



Zoophytaria grcenlandica, 3Iyliiis, Gronl. Thierjyfl. 1753, 4to, with a 



plate. 

 Hydra marina arctica, Ellis, Phil. Trans, xlviii. p. 305 (Clustered Sea- 



PoljT)e), t. 12 ; CoraU. p. 96, t. 37. 

 Isis encrinus, Linn. S. N. ed. 10. n. 5. 



Pennatida encrinus, Pallas, Zooph. p. 305 ; Ellis l^ Solander, p. 67, 

 Umbellularia grcenlandica, Latnk. Syst. p. 380 ; A. s. V. ed. 2. p. 381 ; 



Dana, Zooph. p. 598 ; Esper, I^anz. iii. p. 366, t. 2. 

 Umbellula, Cuvier, Tab. Elem. p. 676. • 



Umbellularia enciinus, Cuvier, R. A. iii. p. ; Ehrenb. C. M. M. 



Pallas refers to the existence of two speci- 

 mens, — one in the collection of Mr. Peter Col- 

 linson, which was described by Ellis ; the other, 

 described by Mylius, in that of M. Hollmann, 

 of Gottingen. 



Umbellula grcenlcmdica was discovered by 

 " Captain Adrians, of the English Greenland 

 ship the ' Britannia,' a native of Jutland." Two 

 specimens " were drawn up vnth. the line, as 

 they were sounding the sea, out of a clayish 

 ground, 236 fathoms deep, that is, 1416 feet, in 

 79 degrees, north latitude, about 90 English 

 miles from Greenland." " Each of the two 

 plants was broken into three pieces, which acci- 

 dent, however, did not hinder me from laying 

 it before me according to its compleat form and 

 size." They were upwards of 6 feet in length. 



The captain, gave them to M. Dunze, of Bre- 

 men ; and the latter gave one to M. Christlob 

 Mylius, who described and figured it in a pam- 

 phlet entiled "An Account of a New Zoophyte," 

 8vo, 1754, and the other to Mr. CoUinson, who 

 transferred it to John EUis, by whom it was 

 described and figured in his work on Corallines. 

 The specimen that belonged to Mylius was 

 given by him to M. Hollmann, of Gottingen, 

 according to PaUas's 'Zoophytes,' p. 366. What 

 has become of Ellis's specimen is not known ; 

 it has probably been destroyed ; and the speci- 

 men that was in M. HoUmann's collection in 

 1766 has not since been referred to. 



No other specimens appear to have been 

 discovered, which is very remarkable when we 

 consider the number of ships that visit the 

 northern seas, and the attention which the 

 Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish naturalists 

 (especially the former) have paid to the natural 

 productions of the coast of Greenland. 



AU the accounts of the Coral in the more 



Fio-. 2. 



Umbellula (jrcenlan- 

 dica (6 feet long). 



