296 HISTORY OF BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 
1. GEMELLARIA LoRIcULATA, Doody. (Plate XVI. fig. 58.) 
Hab. A few fathoms beyond low-water mark. 
“This coralline, which grows in very large tufts and 
bunches, consists of many long, shining, soft, and slippery 
branches. These are composed-of joints of cells placed in 
pairs back to back. The opening of each is on a slant near 
the top, and looks the contrary way to the other; so that 
the pair together resembles a coat of mail or a pair of stays, 
and the entrances of the cells look like the places for the 
arms to come out at.” (H//is.) 
Dr. Johnston, in describing it in his second edition, says, 
“Common, but Mr. Landsborough has never found the 
smallest scrap of it on our western coast.” This statement 
still holds true as to our western, but not our south-western 
coasts. In a very pleasant excursion to Kirkcudbright- 
shire, some time ago, I visited, along with the Rev. Dr. 
Paterson, of Glasgow, the Rev. Mr. Smith, of Borgue, and 
the Rev. Mr. M‘Millan, of Kirkcudbright, the lighthouse 
on the island called the Little Ross, and no sooner had I 
landed from the boat than I saw ‘loating in the little creek 
great abundance of a coraliine, which I was sure I had not 
met with on our Ayrshire coast. I collected a great quan- 
tity of it, and I was glad to find that it was Gemellaria 
