88 ANTHOZOA HYDROIDA. 



until the meeting of the British Association at Plymouth, in 1841, 

 when I read one on the Organic Fossils of Cornwall. It is impossi- 

 ble to describe the feeling I rose under ; that is over long since ; 

 and the only beating of my heart about the British Association now 

 is, that of gratitude towards its members, and of love for their great 

 kindness. I feel the love of and for scientific pursuits strengthen 

 every day ; and I feel that I have taken hold of that which affords 

 every day a ' feast of reason and flow of soul.' " 



2. AN. RAMOS A, polypidom branched, branchlets of the 

 whorls longer ; polype-cells without intermediate cellules. D. 

 Dare. 



PLATE XX. 



Corallina ramosa cirris obsita, Raii Syn. 35, no. 11. Ellis Corall. 16, pi. 9, b and c. 

 Sertularia antennina, 0, Lin, Syst. 1310. Neniertesia ramosa, Lamour. Cor. 

 Flex. 164. Antennularia ramosa, Lam. Anim. s. Vert. ii. 123 : 2de dit. ii. 156. 

 Stark Elem. ii. 440. Templeton in lib. cit. 468. Hassall in Ann. and Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. vi. 168, pi. 5, fig. 1, 2. Sertularia seticornis, Hogg's Stock. 33. Antennu- 

 laria arborescens, Hassall in Ann. Nat. Hist. xi. Ill . A. antennina, var. Johns. 

 Brit. Zooph. 140, pi. 16, fig. 2. Couch Corn. Faun. 29. 



Hob. On old shells and stones from deep water. " In littore 

 Dubrensi collegit D. Dare Pharmacopseus Londinensis," Ray. It is 

 as common as the preceding, and is found on all our coasts. 



" This differs," says Ellis, from the preceding, " in being branched 

 out, and in having its capillary ramifications much longer." Never- 

 theless, Ellis deemed them " one species ;" and to this conclusion 

 he was unhesitatingly followed by Pallas and by Dr. Fleming. 

 Lamarck and Lamouroux fell back upon the older opinion of Ray ; 

 but they had not discovered any new diagnostic to support the 

 distinctions they defined, which seem to have been made merely in 

 the indulgence of an analytical spirit. Hence I followed the view 

 of Ellis in the first edition of this work a view still considered as 

 correct by Mr. Couch. " There are," he says, " two variations of 

 this species which at first would seem to constitute specific dif- 

 ferences, but after many examinations I am inclined to think they 

 are only varieties." I confess myself to remain of Mr. Couch's 

 opinion. 



From a closer examination, Mr. Hassall was the first to say, 

 on apparently better grounds, that these varieties might be really 

 species. He tells us that Ant. ramosa arises "by a single trunk, 

 which subsequently divides and subdivides into numerous branches ;" 



