﻿12 FrNICULlKlDJi. 



Fam. 1. FUNICULINID^ 

 or JUNCIFORMES. 



Coral elongate, linear, slender. Polypes retractile or non-re- 

 tractile, placed in transverse ridges on each side of the front of the 

 rachis. 



Fuuiculiuea), Oraij, Ann. i^- Mag. Nat. Hist. 1860, v. p. 20. 



a. Ridge of poli/pe-cells attached the whole length. 

 * Rachis quadrangidar or compressed ; cells spiculose. 



1. FUNICULINA. 



Coral free, linear, elongate, rather flattened ; base subclavate, ste- 

 rile. Front surface broad, covered with very close transverse rows of 

 polypes, which are so close as to imbricate one with the other. Cells 

 spiculose. Polyi^es 5 in each row, cylindrical, elongate, not retrac- 

 tile ; tentacles short, retractile. Axis calcareous, elongate, as long- 

 as the coral, quadrangular. 



Funiculina, Lamh. An. s. V. i. ; Herklotz, Notices, 1859, p. 8 ; Gray^ 

 Ann. (^- Mag. Nat. Hist. 1860, v. p. 20 ; Kolliker, Ic. Hist. p. 134. 



Scii-pearia, Cvvier, R. A. iv. p. 85, ed. 2. iv. 



Pavonaria, Curier, R. A. iv. p. 85, ed. 2. iv. ; Dana, Zooph. p. 5'J7 ; 

 Mhv. d^- Haime, Coral, i. p. 214. 



Ehis, Lamarck, and Cuvier describe the polypes as arranged in 

 different manners. 



1. Funiculina quadrangularis. B.M. 



Series of polypes broad and crowded. 



Penna del pesce pavone, Bohadsch, An. Mar. p. 112 (copied Ellis, Phil. 



Trans, liii. p. 426, and Blainville, I. c. t. 90. f. 1). 

 Pennatula quadrangidaris, Pallas, Zooph. p. 372. n. 219. 

 Peunatula anteunina, Linn. S. N. p. 850. u. 7 ; Ellis Sf Solander, Zoo]>h. 



p. 63. 

 Funiculina tetragona, Lamk. An. s. V. ii. p. 423, ed. 2. ii. p. 641. 

 Pavonaria antennina, Cuvier, R. A. ed. 2. iii. p. 319 ; Schweigc/er, 



Handh. p. 4-35 ; Ehrenb. Corall. d. r. M. p. 31. 

 Pavonaria quadrangularis (axis and spicula), Quekett, Lectures, Hist. 



p. 137, f. 71. 

 Pavonaria quadrangulai-is, Blainv. Man. d'Act. p. 516, t. 90. f. 1 (cop. 



Bohadsch) ; Dana, Zooph. p. 597; Edw. iS,- Haime, Corall. i. p. 215. 

 Funiculina aut(3nnina, Hoeven, Handb. ed. 2. i. p. 101. 



Hab. North Sea : in spirits (Stockholm Museum). 



2. Funiculina Forbesii. B.M. 



The polype-cells in short transverse series ; the rachis quadran- 

 gular, large. 



Funiculina Forbei^ii, Verrill, Proc. 3Ius. Comp. Zool. 

 Pavonaria quadrangularis, Jo/oja/w;, Brit. Zooph. p. 104, 1". 31. 



