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attracted my attention, were not distinct polypidoms, but 
little tubular pores, springing from a fistular fibre, which 
ran in an irregular line along the frond, adhering closely to 
it. ‘This creeping fibre, at pretty regular intervals, spread 
out into cells in the form of Hippothoa; and from the blunt 
end of the enlargement the tubular spores arose, of the 
same texture as the creeping fibre, and showing the reddish- 
coloured remains of the polype that had inhabited them. 
It was unlike anything I had seen before. In reading 
Mr. Couch’s description of his Hippothoa sica, I found 
that he said, “the apertures are rather small, and as usually 
seen are round, even, and unarmed; but, in recent and 
living specimens, they are long and tubular, frequently as 
long as the cell. In this state it may be taken for a species 
of Lubulipora.” This description in part suited my little 
creeper, but it was deficient in the regular symmetry of 
Hippothoa. Could it then be Anguinaria on a flat frond ? 
The upright pores were not bent like A. spathulata, and 
showed nothing of the serpent-like head. They were 
like a small quill cut across, and then a longitudinal slice 
cut off towards the top, as the first step in the process of 
making the quill a writing-pen, so that it was open so far 
like 4. spathulata, but unbent; and truncated instead of 
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