202 HISTORY OF BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 
In these thy lowest works; yet these declare 
Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.”’ 
Genus XVIII. PAVONARIA, Cuvier. 
Gen. Char. Polype-mass linear-elongate, quadrangular. Po- 
lypes sessile, retractile, arranged subspirally on one side only of 
the posterior half of the rachis. Tentacula with intermediate 
spinules—Dr. Johnston. 
1. PavonaRra QuADRANGULARIS, Mr. M‘Andrew. 
Hab. West of Scotland, Mr. M‘Andrew; near Oban, 
Mr. William Keddie. ; 
This is a very extraordinary creature, dredged in our 
Scottish western sea, by Mr. M‘Andrew, of Liverpool, who 
has added so much to our British fauna. There is only 
one locality, as yet, in which it has been got in this country 
—off the island of Kerrera, near Oban; and the exact place 
can be so distinctly described, that my esteemed friend, Mr. 
W. Keddie (to whom I have often been greatly mdebted) 
having got a description of the locality before setting out 
for a short residence at Oban, went to the very spot, and 
dredged it in considerable abundance. I can assure my 
friends that if they choose as fine a day as I was favoured 
with the first time I sailed from Crinan to Oban, and on to 
