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linearis, adtenuata, rachi tereti ; altera latcra polypifera. Stipes 

 carnosus, crassior, teres. Kachis stipitc multo longior, adtenuata ; 

 altera latera polypis confertissimis paleaceis obsita. Ossiculum intus 

 teres, lineari-adtenuatiim, subflexum. Longitudine sesquipedali sic- 

 cata extat in Museo Dom. Petri Cramer A)istclodamensis" 



Pavonaria scirjpea, Cuvier, 11. A. ed. 2. iii. p. 319, is described as 

 being cylindrical, with the polypes placed on one side. 



This has been referred to the genus Pavonaria by Cuvier (Reg. 

 Anim. ed. 2. iii. p. 319) and Blainville (Man. d'Aet. p. 516). No 

 specimens agreeing with the description have been found in Museums, 

 and the species is doubtful (see Herldotz, Not. p. 11). 



See fossil Pavonaria DeJanovii, Milne-Edwards & Haime, Coral, 

 i. p. 215. 



4. SCYTALIUM. 



Coral free, linear, elongate ; base elongate, vermiform ; above 

 quadrangular ; sides and hinder part bare ; two series of small, 

 elongate, triangular lobes, placed obtusely on the sides of the front of 

 the axis, so as to be nearly parallel with the axis. Axis quadran- 

 gular, thin. Poly[)es retractile. 



Scytalium, HerMotz, Not. p. 74 ; Grai/, Ann. ^- Mag, Kat. Hist. 18G0, 

 V. p. 21. 



G. Scytalium Sarsii. 



Scytalium Sarsii, Herldotz, Not. p. 14, t. 7. f. 6; Gnn/, Aim. 4" il/wy. 

 Nat. Hist. 1800, v. p. 21. 



Hah. North Sea (Mus. Leyden). 



** Rachis cylindrical; cells fleshy, not spictdose. 



5. VIRGULARIA. 



Coral free, linear, elongate, cylindrical, liachis with the polypes 

 placed in two lateral diverging series, leaving a part of the front and 

 hinder part of the body of the axis free. CeUs not produced, and 

 without spicules, adpressed, nearly at right angles with the axis. 

 Axis cylindrical, fusiform, rather stony, elongate, as long as the 

 rachis, tapering at each end. 



Virgularia, Lamk. A. s. V. ii. p. 429 ; HerMotz, Not. p. 11 ; Gray, Ann. 

 Sf May. Nat. Hist. 1800, v. p. 20. 



MM. Milne-Edwards and Haime observe that this little genus, 

 established by Lamarck, only differs from Pennatida bj- the deve- 

 lopment of the rachis and the shortness of the pinnules (Corall. i. 

 p. 112). 



7. Virgularia juncea. B.M. 



Coral fusiform, elongate, very thin ; base vermiform, elongate, 

 rather swollen : feather narrowed above. 



Sagitta marina, Rumph. Amh. vi. p. 250. 



