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— diffiisum. ^ 



— sceptrum. ^ 



— ensiferum.,^ 



— juncetim. — . 



— quercinum.. 



20. A. sinuosum. -^.^Lamellated ; lamina erect and thick ; 



tortuously winding, like the folds of 

 the brain, with numerous marginal 

 openings. Spongia 9 



nianusdiaboli...Po\ymorphous ; perforated ; with ob- 

 tuse protuberances. 

 Very ramose ; diffused and ill-formed. 

 -Long ; cylindrical ; obsoletely clavated. 

 -Long branches, rather flat and bent like 



a sabre. 

 .Very long, roundish, but compressed, 



soft branches. 

 Frondose ; with flat, winding, lobate 

 processes. 

 — asbestinum — Stem reddish, nearly cylindrical, beset 

 with oblong pores, set in quincunx 

 order. 

 --White ; tuberous ; set with setce. 

 -.Sessile ; incrusting ; and variously lo- 

 bated and papillated, with spinous 

 tubercles and echinulated interstices. 

 ^Tuberous, yellowish ; tops often sub- 

 divided ; set with tubular pores. 

 ~^Fig or pear-formed ; tuberous ; rather 

 ovate ; pulpy and livid. — Marsil. 

 p. 87, Tab. xvi. n. 79. 



M. Laraouroux observes that there is reason for believing 

 that there exists in the Mediterranean two bodies of 

 the same figure ; the one belonging to sponge, the 

 other to alcyonium. Solander considers that figured 

 by Ellis to be sponge. 



cyliudricum. JSVhite and round. 



Lamarck considers this as only being a detached portion 

 of a ramose alcyonium. 



21. 



22. 

 23. 

 24. 



25. 



26. 



27. 



28. 

 29. 



cranium 



papillosum. 



30. — tuberosum. 



31. — Jicus 



32. 



