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living tenants of the deep, which testify the action and 

 volition diffused throughout their beautiful and luxu- 

 riant tlourish.'' 



Dr. Landsborough refers to the fact that if these 

 polyps be kept in captivity for a few days, the heads 

 drop off, and remarks that '* it would be all over with 

 a man, even the wisest, if his head were to drop off, 

 unless we wei^e to give credit to the legend of one of 

 old, who, when decapitated, could run with his head 

 under his arm ; but this mai'ine knight of the oaten 

 pipes can survive what would prove fatal to our 

 doughtiest hero." Soon after the dropping off of a 

 head, a new one appears, and this process of re-capita- 

 tion may be often repeated, a ring on the polypary 

 being formed each time. 



2. T. LARYNX, E. and 8. (including T. coronata, 

 Abildgaard). Plate III. fig. 7. 



T. muscoides {Pal., Tiirt., Bosc, FL, De B.), Euden- 

 drium Bryoides (Ehr.), Tubularia coronata (Abildgaard, 

 V. B., AIL, T. K), T. gracilis {Harvey, G. J., D. L., 

 Ald.,P.H.G.,McA.). 



Hab. : Common. Height | — 1| in. Stems clus- 

 tered, straw-coloured, ringed at intervals, whence its 

 specific name. Polypites rose colour, with 14 — 20 

 distal tentacles, and about 20 proximal tentacles all 

 white. Gonophores hanging in clusters from rose- 

 coloured peduncles, which are often racemosely 

 branched, and " as long as the proximal tentacles.''^ 



Prof. Allman considers the species T. larynx and 

 2\ coronata as one species, the latter being, however, a 

 larger variety, sometimes attaining the height of 3 

 inches. 



Elhs (" Corallines,'^ 30) describes this as the " tubu- 



