II. SERTULARINA. 



Ehrenberg Corall. des roth. Meer. p. 73. 

 Fig. 6. 



FAMILY SERTULARIADjE. 



Genus SERTULARUB pars, Pall. Blench. 106. Lin. Syst. 1306. Soland. Zooph. 32. 

 SERTULARIEKS, pars, Lamour. Expos. Meth. 9. SERTULARIAD^E, pars, Flem. 

 Brit. Anim. 538. Les SERTULARIES, pars, Elaine. Actinolog. 472. SERTCLA- 

 RIADJE, Johnston in Trans. Berw. CL 107. Gray in Syn. Brit. Mus. 76. 



CHARACTER. Polypidoms plant-like, horny, rooted, variously 

 branched, tubular, filled with a semifluid organic pulp , the 

 polypes contained within sessile cells, which are variously, but 

 always determinately, disposed along the sides of the main stalk 

 or branchlets, and are never terminal : ova contained in horny 

 deciduous vesicles scattered over the polypidom : embryos 

 planaria-like. 



