200 NATURAL HISTORY OP 



FAMILY V. FUNICULINIDvE. 



Genus Funiculina, 



Long slender sea feather. Stalk short. Polyps 

 inserted directly into the rachis. Stem quadrangular. 

 Calyx with 8 processes. — Kolliker. 



1. F. quadrangularis, HerMots. 



Pennatula quadrangularis (Pall.), P.antennina(L/;ni., 

 E. and 8.), P. tetragona {Lamk.), Pavonaria antennina 

 [Cuvier, Schweigger, Ehr.), P. quadrangularis {De B., 

 D. Chiaj'e, Forbes, Dana, M. Edw., G. J., D. L.), Funi- 

 culina antennina {Hoeven), F. Forbesii [Verrill, Gray). 



Ha,b. : Oban, Raasey Sound, Hebrides, St. Andrews. 

 Height up to 53 in. Feather five to six times as long 

 as the stalk. 



In this species the rachis is very long, and is studded 

 with polyps which are not arranged^ as in the two pre- 

 ceding families^ in leaVes^ but are individually sessile 

 on the rachis. The colour of the rachis is ivory-white, 

 and of the stalk yellowish-brown. 



This is a brilliantly phosphorescent species. Like 

 the preceding species it is believed to live erect with 

 its stalk buried in the mud. 



The anatomy of the Pennatulida, accompanied by 

 exact and beautiful drawings, is fully given in the 

 report of Messrs. Marshall before referred to, to 

 which the reader is referred for details of microscopic 

 structure. 



