ANTHOZOA ASTEROIDA. 



ZOOCORALIA OCTACTINIA, Ehrenberff, Corall. des roth. Meer. 53. (1834.) Les 

 ALCYONIENS, Audouin and M. Edwards in Lam. An. s. Vert iii. 105. (1836.) 

 ZOOPHYTA ASTEROIDA, Johnston in Mag. Zool. and Bot. i. 447. (1836.) 

 ZOOPHYTARIA, Blainville, Man. 496. (1834.)-<7n^ in Syn. Brit. Mus. 131. 

 (1842.) 



Fig. 31. 



On a cursory view the polypidoms of the three families em- 

 braced in this order appear very dissimilar, and accordingly, by 

 many recent authors, they have been scattered over the class, 

 and placed widely asunder. The affinity between them, how- 

 ever, is generally acknowledged, and had been distinctly per- 

 ceived by some of the earliest zoophytologists. Thus Bohadsch 

 found so much in common between the typical Pennatulee and 

 a species of Alcyonium, that he has not hesitated to describe 

 them as members of the same genus ; and although the more 

 systematic character of Pallas prevented him falling into this 

 err0 r, if error it can indeed be called, he did not the less 



