302 NATURAL HISTORY OF 



Pustulipora clavata {Busk, C. W. P.), P. deflexa 

 (part T. H.). 



Hab. : Penzance (0. W. P.), Torbay {T. H.). 



Forms short erect zoaria, with clavate cylindrical 

 branches. The zocecia are tubular, irregularly scattered 

 round the branches, with their extremities free and 

 bending outwards and upwards. They are marked with 

 white punctures, and the extremities of the branches 

 are described by Mr. Hincks as cellular in appearance. 



Genus V. Diastopora, Lamouroux (in part). (From 

 SidcrT7}/jba, an interval.) 



Zoarium adnate and crustaceous, or foliaceous, usually 

 discoid or flabellate, less commonly irregular in form. 

 Zocecia tubular, with an elliptical or subcircular orifice, 

 crowded, longitudinally arranged, in great part im- 

 mersed. — T. H. 



1. D. PATINA, Lamarck. 



Tubulipora patina {Lamk., De JBL, G. J., D. L., 

 P. H. G., R. Q. C), Patinella verrucaria {Gro.y), P. 

 patina {Busk, T. H.), Discosparsa marginata {D'Orh.), 

 D. patina {Heller), D. verrucaria {Flem.), Madrepora 

 verrucaria {Linn., &c.), Tubulipora bellis {Thompson), 

 Millepora verrucaria {E. and 8.). 



Hab.: Cornwall (E. Q. C), South Devon {T. H.), 

 Weymouth {A. S. P.), Northumberland {Alder), St. 

 Andrews {McL), Hebrides {A. M. N.), Isle of Man 

 [Mrs. Beever), Yorkshire Coast {Mrs. Gattij). 



This is the '' Wart-like Coralline " of Couch. It ap- 

 pears as a calcareous snow-white, more or less circular 

 saucer-shaped lamina, extending beneath and beyond 

 a central crowded zoarium, iu which the cells are 

 radially disposed, the innermost cells being closed and 



