146 A. E. Verrill — Bermudhin and West Indhin Reef Corals. 



Agaricia agaricites (L.) E. and Haime. 



Madrepora agaricites {pars) Liiine, Syst. Nat., ed. x. p. 795, 1758; ed. xii, p. 



1274, 1767. Pallas {pars) Elencli. Zooph., p. 387, 1766. Ellis and Sol., 



Zooph., p. 159, pi. Ixiii, 1786. Esper, Pflanz., i, p. 132, 1789. 

 Undaria agaricites Oken, Lehrb. Nat., p. 69, 1815. 

 Pavonia agaricites Lam., Hist. Anim. s. Vert., ii, p. 239, 1816. 

 Agaricia {Mycedia) agaricites Dana, Zooph., p. 342, 1846. 

 Agaricia agaricites Edw. and Haime, Ann. Sci. Nat., xv, p. 127, 1851 ; Hist. 



Corall., iii, p. 81, 1860. Poiirtales, Deep Sea Corals, p. 82, 1871 ; Florida 



Reefs, pi. xi, figs. 11-13, pi. xii, figs. 1-3, 1880. 

 Agaricia agaricites {2)ars) Gregory, op. cit. , p. 279, 1895 (synonymy). Vaughan, 



op. cit., p. 64, 1901. 

 Agaricia {Mycedia) gibbosa Dana, Zooph., p. 341, 1846 (var. from type). 

 Agaricia {Mycedia) cristata Dana, Zooph., p. 343, 1846 (large celled var., from 



type), and var. tenuifolia. 

 Agaricia Danai Edw. and Haime, Corall., iii, p. 84, 1860=cristata Dana, non 



Lam. {non Myceclium Danai Diich. and Mich., 1860). Large celled variety. 

 Mycedium Danai Duch. and Mich., Corall. Antill., p. 81, 1860 (t. Vanghan, 



from type,) 7ion Edw. and Haime. Lamellate variety. 

 Mycedium Lessoni and M. vesparium Duch. and Mich., op. cit., p. 81, 1860, 



(t. Vanghan, from types). Eeticulated, encrusting varieties. 

 !' Mycedium Sayicti-Johannis Duch. and Mich., op. cit., SupL, p. 187, 1866, 



(t. Vaughan, but not from types). 

 P" Agaricia frondosa Quelch, op. cit., p. 118, 1886. {inon D. and Mich.). 



Plate XXVI. Figures 2, 3. Plate XXVIl. Figures 1-3, 5-7. 



This species varies greatly in mode of growth and form, and also 

 in the size of the calicles and their arrangement, and in the character 

 and size of the collines, which are nearly abortive in some cases. 



5 6 7 



Figure 5. — Agaricia agaricites, var. Dance. Part of a frond of a well-grown 

 Bahamas specimen, natural size. Fig. 6.— The same. Part of the original 

 type of Dana, natural size. Fig. 1.— Agaricia agaricites, var. agaricites. 

 Part of a frond of a large, loculate, West Indian specimen, natural size. 



