32. MOl'SELLA. 9 



31. ANICELLA. 



Coral fan-like, dichotomously branched ; branches separate, diva- 

 ricating in the same plane, arising from the short rather sunken 

 joints. Bark thin, hard, smooth, longitudinally grooved. Cells 

 minute, subeylindrical, short, produced in a narrow alternating series 

 on each edge of the branches and branchlets. Axis calcareous, 

 solid, with longitudinal grooves ; internodes very short, contracted, 

 cork-hke. 



Anicella, Gray, Ami. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. 1868, ii. p. 445. 

 Hah. ? 



Like Melithcea, but the polype-cells small, prominent, and in a 

 single lateral series. 



It agrees with Mopsea in the joints being short and contracted ; 

 but they are cork-hke, as in the younger branches of MeliteUa, and 

 horny. 



81. Anicella australis. B.M. 



Coral red, growing in one plane ; the stem distinctly jointed ; the 

 branchlets slender, with the joints very inconspicuous. 



Anicella australis, Gray, Ann. 4'" Mag. Nat. Hist. 1868, ii. p. 445, f. 4. 



Hah. Port Essington (Jukes). 



Fig. 2. 



Anicella australis. 



II. Coral eredi shi-ub-like, forked. 

 32. MOPSELLA. 

 Coral tree-like, dichotomously branched ; branches diverging from 

 the swollen spongy joints. Axis articulated ; segments elongated, 



