TUBULARIAD^E : EUDENDRIUM. 45 



FAMILY TUBULARIAD.E. 



Genus TUBULARIA, Lin. Syst. edit. x. i. 803. Pallas Elench. 79. Lin. Syst. 1301. 

 Lam. Anim. s. Vert. ii. 108. JBlainv. Actinolog. 469. Schweigger Handb. 424. 

 Genus FISTULARIA, Mutter Zool. Dan. prod, xxxii. Family TUBULARIAD.E, 

 Johnston in Trans. Berw. Cl. 107. Gray in Syn. Brit. Mus. 76. 



CHARACTER. Polypidom plant-like, horny, rooted by fibres, 

 rarely free, simple or branched, tubular, filled with a semi- 

 fluid organic pulp : Polypes naked, protruded from the ends of 

 the tubes and not retractile, fleshy and red, armed with one or 

 two circles of smooth filiform tentacula. Bulbules pullulating 

 from the bases of the tentacula, soft and naked. Embryo me- 

 dusiform. 



5. EUDENDRIUM,* Ehrenberg. 



CHARACTER. Polypidom rooted by creeping fibres, erect and 

 variously branched, the fibres cylindrical, tubular, filled with a 

 soft pulp : Polypes hanging from the extremity of every branch- 

 let, non-retractile, roundish, somewhat pedicled, naked and 

 fieshy, the body encircled with a zone of filiform tentacula ; the 

 nouth central and subtubular. 



1. E. RAMEUM, arborescent, irregularly branched, the stem 

 md branches formed of agglutinated filiform tubes; ultimate 

 branchlets alternate and single, polypiferous. G. J. 



PLATE V. FIG. 1, 2. 



Tubularia ramea, Pall. Elench. 83. Johns. Brit. Zooph. 117, pi. 5, fig. 1, 2. Hassall 

 in Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. vi. 167. Macgillivray in Ibid. ix. 463. Couch 

 Zooph. Corn. 4: Corn. Faun. iii. 15. Thoa Savignyi, Lamour. Expos. Method. 

 15, tab. 67, fig. 5, 6 (bad). Tubularia ramosa, Johnston in Trans. Newc. Soc. ii. 

 253, pi. 10. 



Hob. On old shells and on stones from deep water. Shetland and 

 Leith shore, Dr. Coldstream. Bay of Whitburn, Durham, Miss 

 Dale. Frequent on the coasts of Northumberland and Berwickshire, 

 J. Scarborough, W. Bean. Pound attached to an oyster 

 dredged at Whitehaven, Cumberland, W. Thompson. Blackrock, 

 Dublin Bay, E 'assail. Cornwall, on the Pinna ingens, Couch. Don- 

 mouth, Aberdeenshire, Macgillivray. Shores near Liverpool, Thos. 

 G. R. Rylands. 



* From iu well, 



