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FAMILY IX. EUDENDRIID^. (e5, well, and 

 SivBpov, a tree.) 



Polypites home on a well- developed stem, with a simple 

 verticil of filiform, tentacula surrounding the base of a 

 large trumpet-shaped proboscis.^ — T. H, 



Genus Eudendrium, Ehr. {in part). 



Stem branched, rooted by a creeping filiform stolon, 

 the whole invested by a chitinous polypary. Poly piles 

 vase-shaped or roundish, and as in family character. 

 Gonophores on body below tentacles, or from stem 

 containing fixed sporosacs. — T. H. 



1. E. RAMEUM, Pallas. 



Tubularia ramea {Pal., G. J., Dal., B. Q. C, Bose), 

 Thoa Savigni {Lamx.}, Tubularia ramosa {G.J.). 



Hab. : Shetland, East Coast of England, Scotland, 

 and Ireland, Whitburn, Whitehaven ; rare in Corn- 

 wall, Lytham, St. Andrew's (McL). Height 3-— 6 in. 

 Stem much branched. Main stem reddish-brown, 

 often I in. in thickness, and with the principal branches 

 composed of a bundle of tubes. Branchlets alternate, 

 slightly ringed at the joints. Polypites rose colour, 

 with vase-shaped proboscis (hypostome) and about 20 

 tentacles. Gonophores borne as described in generic 

 character. 



This beautiful species has been a favourite of all 

 zoophytologists. Its tree-like appearance and habit 

 are such as to amply justify its generic name. 



The usual height is 6 inches, but a height of 9 inches 

 is sometimes attained. The following poetical descrip- 



* "With the hypostome abruptly differentiated from the body " 

 (All., G. H., 330). 



