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he now considers it distinct, he has given it the specific 
name (érwncata) which I suggested. 
There was, along with the figure of 4. spathulata and A. 
ligulata, the figure of another Anguinaria. I was glad to 
see it and to get the name of it, for I had got very fine 
specimens of it on a beautiful alga from Port Phillip, which 
I received from my kind friend Dr. D. Curdie. I saw that it 
was quite distinct from our British 4. spathulata, and supe- 
rior to it both in size and in beauty. Instead of terminating 
like a surgeon’s spatula or a serpent’s head, it was shaped 
exactly like a ladle, the open part at the top spreading out 
and becoming quite circular. Though ! have a good col- 
lection of foreign zoophytes, I have few books in which they 
are described and figured; so that they either remain un- 
named, or have temporary names assigned. ‘To the ladle- 
shaped one I gave the interim name of A. cochlearis, so 
that I was very glad to receive from Mr. Busk an excellent 
figure of it under the true name A. di/atata. 
Genus X. HIPPOTHOA, Lamourouz. 
Gen. Char. Polypidom confervoid, adherent and creeping, 
calcareous, irregularly branched, the branches frequently ana- 
stomosing, formed of elliptical cells linked to each other at 
