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regular, the intervening spaces supporting two or three 
pores in oblique rows.” (/leming.) 
2. RereporaA BEANiAna, Bean’s Netted Coralline, “ds. 
(Plate XIX. fig. 73.) 
Hab. Deep water, ‘yare. Shetland Islands, Jameson ; 
Scarborough, Mr. Bean; Cape Clear, Ireland, Professor 
Allman; Orkneys, Prof. E. Forbes; coast of Northumber- 
land, Mr. W. King; Shetland, Mr. Barlie. 
This polypidom is fully an inch in height, fixed to other 
substances by a short, thick, hollow stalk, expanding into a 
cup-like form. It has a netted appearance, and the cells 
open only on the upper or inner side. It is a most beau- 
tiful little coral: a person might think that it was formed 
of fine Honiton lace, which had lost its pliancy by being 
frozen. The first fragment of it I ever saw I received from 
my kind friend Major Alexander Martin, of Ardrossan, who 
had got it from Shetland. Learning that better specimens 
of it had been dredged by Mr. Barlie in Shetland, I, 
through Mrs. Gulson, requested him to send a good speci- 
men of it for a little to Mrs. Spade, of Armitage Park, 
Staffordshire, by whose tasteful pencil the beautiful drawing 
of it was prepared for our Plate, so that in this one case no 
less than four kind friends have concurred in obliging me. 
