228 THE MEDALS OF CREATION. Cuap. VII. 
fig. 4, are examples. The Upper Greensand at Folkstone 
and Dover abounds in a flexuous species, named Scyphia 
meandrina (Morris). 
Cnemipium (Goldfuss). Lign. 70, fig. 7.—These sponges 
consist of a cluster of turbinated projections, having a 
central pit above, and being porous on the external surface, 
and radiated at the margin. The mass is dense and fibrous, 
and is traversed by horizontal canals, diverging from the 
centre to the circumference. 
Lien. 71. Fossit SPONGE; val. 
( Chenendopora fungiformis. )} 
Greensand. Faringdon. 
CHENENDOPORA.* Lign. 71.—The species of porifera thus 
named are cyathiform, or cup-shaped ; externally furrowed, ~ 
en P*, 
mamillated, or lobed; internally smooth, and the surface i 
covered with fine pores. The beautiful species figured (C. — 
* The Pictorial Atlas contains coloured figures of the following :— — 
Chenendopora fungiformis (Michelin), Pict. Atlas, pl. xliv. fig. 5: 
according to Mr. Morris. 
subplana (Michelin), ibid. pl. xliv. fig. 3. 
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* 
Scyphia articulata (Goldfuss), ibid. pl. xliii. figs. 7, 8, 9. : 
—— costata (Goldfuss), ibid, pl. xliv. fig. 1. 
Cnemidium rimulosum (Goldfuss), ibid. pl. xliv. fig. 3. 
