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6 has more crowded septa and is like var. stvigosu. But the section 
shown in fig. 8 represents dipsacea, to judge by the stouter triangu- 
lar teeth, though the calicle is deep. As long ago as 1861-1864, 
Figure 80.—Mussa dipsacea, a group of calicles from a normal specimen, about 
natural size. Phot. A. H. V. 
when I had charge of the collection of corals in the Mus. Comp. 
Zoology, I could not find the originals from which these figures 
were made. Therefore I presume that Pourtalés did not find them, 
Figure 81.—Mussa dipsacea, var. aster. A young colony. Polyps partly ex- 
panded, one in full expansion, about nat. size. From a colored figure by 
PAs ah 
and they must be judged as they appear on the plate. The septa 
are too thin and too crowded and their denticles too slender to 
belong to M. dipsacea, as now understood. 
