108 HISTORY OF BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 
variously branched, the fibres cylindrical, tubular, filled with a 
soft pulp. Polypes hanging from the extremity of every branchlet, 
non-retractile, roundish, somewhat pedicled, naked and fleshy, 
the body encircled with a zone of filiform tentacula; the mouth 
central and subtubular.—Johuston._—-Name from two Greek words 
signifying well, and a tree. 
1. EupEnpRium RAMEUM. (Plate II. fig. 5.) 
Hab. On shells and stones, deep water. Shetland and 
Leith, Dr. Coldstream; Bay of Whitburn, Miss Dale; 
Northumberland and Berwickshire, frequent, Dr. Johnston ; 
Scarborough, Mr. Bean; Whitehaven, Mr. W. Thompson ; 
Dublin Bay, Mr. Hassall; Cornwall, Mr. Couch ; Aberdeen- 
shire, Mr. Macgillivray ; near Liverpool, Mr. Rylands. 
Dr. Johnston very truly says, “This animal production 
so perfectly resembles a tree in miniature deprived of its 
leaves, that persons unacquainted with the nature of zoo- 
phytes cannot be persuaded that it is not of a vegetable 
nature.” It is from three to six inches high. It is irre- 
gularly divided into many compound branches. The po- 
lypes are of a reddish colour, the tentacula whitish and 
numerous. 
This zoophyte has not been found on the Ayrshire coast. 
We have fine specimens from Mr. Tudor, Bootle. It is well 
