150 THE ATLANTIC. [ CHAP. II. 
Two specimens of this fine species were brought from the 
coast of Greenland early in last century by Captain Adriaanz, 
who found them adhering to the sounding-line brought up 
Fia. 36.-—Umbellularia Grenlandica,L. Natural size. (No. 7.) 
from about 300 fathoms water. They were described by M. 
Christlob Mylius in 1754, and one of them was afterward de- 
scribed in the Philosophical Transactions by Ellis, who formed 
