112 ANTHOZOA HYDROIDA. 



* * Stem composed of many parallel tubes. 



6. 0. VERTICILLATA, erect, branched , cells on verticillate pe- 

 dicles, campanulate, with a serrulated rim. Dr. Brownrigg.'"' 



PLATE XXVI. FIG. 3, 4. 



Horse-tail Coralline with bell-shaped cups, Ellis Corall. 23, no. 20, pi. 13, fig. a. A. 

 Sertularia verticillata, Linn. Syst. 1310. Pall. Blench. 115. Ellis and So- 

 land. Zooph. 50. Berk. Syn. i. 218. Hogg's Stock. 34 Clytia verticillata, Leu- 

 mour. Cor. Flex. 202. Campanularia verticillata, Lam. Anim. s. Vert. ii. 113 ; 2de 

 6dit. ii. 131. Flem. Brit. Anim. 550. Templeton in Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. 466. 

 Couch Zooph. Cornw. 23 : Corn. Faun. iii. 42, pi. 1 1, fig. 4. Hassall in Ann. 

 and Mag. N. Hist. vi. 169. La Laomedee verticillee, Blainv. Actinolog. 475, 

 pi 84, fig. 3. 



Hob. " Near Whitehaven, in Cumberland," Dr. Brownrigg. Near 

 Hartlepool, Durham, not very frequent, J. Hogg, Esq. Not uncom- 

 mon on the coast at Scarborough, adhering to shells, &c., Mr. Bean. 

 Cullercoats, Northumberland, Mr. Joshua Alder. Rare in Corn- 

 wall ; not so much so in Devon ; more frequent in Norfolk, W. G. 

 Peach. Blackrocks, Dublin, A. H. Hassall. Clyde off Cumbray, 

 E. Forbes. Found commonly thrown ashore at Portmarnock in 

 1835, and subsequently : more rare, but of occasional occurrence, in 

 deep water in Belfast Bay, W. Thompson. Magilligan, Mr. 

 Hyndman. 



Polypidom adhering by creeping tubulous fibres, erect, irregularly 

 branched, the stem and branches composed of many closely applied 

 parallel tubes ; branches erect or erecto-patent, cylindrical, straight, 

 hirsute from the capillary pedicles of the cells which originate in 

 whorls at stated intervals : the pedicles are ringed at top and bot- 

 tom but generally smooth about the middle, patent, simple ; the cell 

 itself campanulate, thin and transparent with a serrated brim. 

 Vesicles scattered, arising from the branches, solitary, very shortly 

 stalked, oval, smooth, with a narrow aperture. 



* Dr. William Brownrigg, born at High Close Hall, Cumberland, March 24th, 

 1711 ; graduated M.D. at Leyden in 1737 ; elected F.R.S. in 1742 ; in 1748 pub- 

 lished his valuable work on the art of making common salt ; received the Copley 

 medal for the year 1765 ; continued to prosecute with zeal his chemical and philoso- 

 phical experiments, and to enjoy his literary taste, until the period of his death, 

 which took place at Ormathwaite, January 6, 1800, aged 88 years. For an able 

 biographical account of this learned and excellent physician, see the Annals of Phi- 

 losophy, vol. x. p. 321, &c. 



