Verrill, Notes on RacUata. 45? 



3 to 6 pronged stars and crosses, there are also double-heads, clubs, 

 double-clubs, and various irregular forms. 



The larger spindles measure •212""" by •125'^"", -200 by -100, -175 by 

 •125, -175 by ^112, -175 by -100, •162 by -125, -150 by -112, •ISO by 

 •100, ^125 by -087 ; the three-pronged spicula -200 by -150, -175 by '162, 

 •150 by •ISO, -150 by ^125, -125 by ■1-25, •125 by '100; the four-armed 

 crosses -212 by -175, -175 by -162, •IS? by ^112, -125 by -125; the five- 

 rayed stars •162 by -150, -125 by ^087, ^112 by -100; the six-pronged 

 spicula ^162 by -112, -150 by -125 ; the irregular spicula -175 by -137, 

 •162 by -125, •ISO by •125, -125 by •112. Among the small spicula 

 some of the smaller spindles measure '100 by "062, ^075 by '050 ; heads 

 •100 by -075, ^075 by •OTS ; double-heads '062 by '032, •OSO by ^037 ; 

 clubs -125 by -075, ^075 by -050 ; double-clubs '100 by '050, ^087 by 

 •037. 



Panama and Pearl Islands, at low-water mark ; and Zorritos, Peru, 

 from half-tide downward, on the under side of projecting stones and 

 on shells, — F. H. Bradley ; La Paz, — J. Pedersen. 



Callipodium aureum Veiriii, sp. nov. 



Plate Y, figure 23. 



Corallum yellow, encrusting, consisting of crowded, elongated, tubu- 

 lar corallites, united nearly to their summits, thus forming a corym- 

 bose cluster, with an uneven surface. 



The verrucge in the central parts, where most crowded, project but 

 slightly above the surface and are rather large, rounded, and distinctly 

 eight-rayed in contraction. Some of the lateral verrucge project about 

 •10 inch. Coenenchyma thickened, very spiculose, its surface and that 

 of the verrucse granulous. Color, in alcohol, bright orange-yellow. 



Height •S of an inch ; breadth 1 ; diameter of verrucas about "OS. 



Spicula bright golden yellow, similar in form to those of the pre- 

 ceding species, but larger, and with longer and more slender branches 

 or rays in the star-shaped forms. The larger spindles are mostly 

 rather stout, blunt, with distant, very pi-ominent, large warts, which, are 

 spiuulose at summit ; they are often irregular or lobed, and some are 

 rather slender. The star-shaped spicula have mostly three or four, 

 sometimes five or six, rays or branches, which are mostly unequal and 

 irregular, but usually considerably elongated and often slender, 

 smooth at base, but covered at the ends with a cluster of rough warts 

 or spinules. Irregular, roughly warted clubs and double clubs, nearly 

 as large as the spindles, also occur sparingly. Irregularly formed 

 spicula of various shapes, but with very prominent warts, are frequent. 



