286 A. £. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands; Coral Reefs. 
bodies and the cenenchyma. The disk is 14 to 18™" broad in expan- 
sion, ‘The tentacles vary from 52 to 60 in the full grown polyps ; 
they are short, subequal, in two regularly alternating rows, usually 
dark yellow or dull orange with white tips. The disk is also gen- 
erally some shade of brownish orange, with specks and radial lines 
of whitish, lips usually white. The angular columnal lobes, opposite 
the inner tentacles, are tipped with flake-white, and one in line with 
the directive tentacles is often larger and whiter than tke rest. 
Column and ccenenchyma, under the coating of sand, is ocher-yellow, 
pale orange, or orange-brown, 
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131 
Figure 131.—Palythoa grandiflora, a small colony partly contracted, about 
nat, size. 
Figure 132.—The same, part of a larger colony, slightly reduced. Phot. by 
ALE. Vi, 
It was most abundant in the course of streams of salt water flow- 
ing out from caverns, etc., through the rocky shores, especially on 
the west side of Castle Harbor. It occurred also on the reefs and 
in 5 to 8 fathoms. It does not appear to be known from the West 
Indies. 
The polyps of this species agree so well in size, color, and number 
of tentacles with those of Protopalythoa grandis, that it may 
naturally be suspected that they are the same species with different 
