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" per litora spargite museum, 



Naiades, et circiim vitreo3 considite fontes: 

 ■PoUice virgineo teneros h'lo carpite flores: 

 Floribus et pictum, divse, replete eanistrum. 

 At vos, o Nymphse Craterides, ite sub undaa ; 

 Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunco 

 Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, De« pelagi, et pingui eonchylia suoco." 



JV. Farthenii Giannettaiii Eel. 1. 



No. 103. JULY 1876. 



L — On the Affinities of the Anthozoa Tahulata. 

 By Dr. GUSTAV LiNDSTROM*. 



Since Milne-Edwards and Haime first laid the foundations of 

 their classification of the Anthozoa in their great works, a 

 large amount of material has been amassed on various hands, 

 and necessitates on nearer investigation a revision and, as an 

 unavoidable attendant of the progress of science, a rearrange- 

 ment of the various parts of the system. But amongst all 

 the orders of Anthozoa none seems to stand so much in need 

 of revision as that of the Tabulate Corals ; and the purport of 

 the present paper is to demonstrate that this order is composed 

 of genera belonging to quite different classes of the animal 

 kingdom, and having no zoological affinities with one another ; 

 whence it results that the oi*der Anthozoa Tabulata must 

 be broken up and its constituent genera distributed amongst 

 other classes and orders previously known. Having examined 

 almost all genera belonging to the Tabulate Corals, I cannot but 

 concur in the opinion, which Prof. Verrillf, as far as I know, 



* Published in the Proceedings of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, 

 1873, and translated, with amendments and additions, by the author. 

 Commimicated by Dr. H. Alleyne Nicholson. 



t " On the Zoological Affinities of the Tabulate Corals," Proc. Amer. 

 Assoc. Adv. Sci. 1867, p. 1-50 ; "Reviewof Corals and Polyps of W. Coast 

 of America," Trans. Conn. Acad. vol. i. 1868-70, p. 518 ; ''Affinities of 

 Palaeozoic Tabulate Corals with existing Snecies," Silliman's Journ. 1872, 

 p. 187. See also W. S. Kent, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1870, vi. p. 384. 



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