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THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA. 



[chap. III. 



the corticate type, though it differs from all the other 

 known members of the order in being supported on a 

 long symmetrical stalk formed, as Professor Loven 

 has shown, of sheaves of short spicules bound together 



Fio. 13. — Stylocordylaboreidis, Lovim iSp./. Statural sue (Xo. 04.) 



by horny cement. A tuft of delicate fibres fixes the 

 base of the stem in its position. Professor Oscar 

 Schmidt, in his "Outline of the Sponge Fauna of 

 the Atlantic," refers this form to his genus Cometclla, 



