ANTHOZOA ASTEROIDA. 



FAMILY PENNATULID.E. 



PENNATULA, Lin. Syst. x. 818. Pall. Blench. 362. Lin. Syst. 1321. Les PEN- 

 NAT ULES, Cuv. Reg. Anim. iii. 317. POLYPI NAT ANTES, iMm. Anim. s. Vert, 

 ii. 413. PENNATULIDJS, Flem. Brit. Anim. 507. J. E. Gray in Syn. Brit. Mus. 

 132. PENN.B MARINE, Schweig. Handb. 401. PENNATULARIA, Blainv. Man. 

 512. CALAMITES, Latr. Fam. Nat. 543. PENNATULINA, Ehrenb. Corall. des 

 roth. Meer. 63. 



16. PENNATULA,"* Cuvier. 



CHARACTER. Polype-mass free, plumous, the shaft sub- 

 cylindrical^ naked beneath, pennated above ; pinnae two-ranked, 

 spreading, flattened, and polypiferous along the upper margin. 



1 . P. PHOSPHOREA, purplish-red, the base of the smooth stalk 

 pale ; rachis roughened with close-set papilla and furrowed 

 down the middle ; pinn<e close ; polype-cells uniserial, tubular, 

 with spinous apertures. Sir R. Sibbald. 



Penna marina, Sib. Scot. ii. lib. tert. 28. P. rubra, Bohad. Anim. Mar. 101, pi. 8, 

 fig. 1 3. Pennatula phosphorea, Lin. Syst. 1332. Ellis in Phil. Trans, liii. 

 420, pi. 1 9, fig. 15. Mull. Zool. Dan. prod. 255, no. 3075. Esper Pflanz. Pennat. 

 tab. 3, fig. 1 3. Oliv. Zool. Adriat. 294. Wern. Mem. i. 565. Turt. Brit. Faun. 

 217. Stew. Elem. ii. 450. Blumenb. Man. 274. Lam. Anim. s. Vert. ii. 426 : 

 2de 6dit. ii. 643. Cuv. Reg. Anim. iii. 318. Flem. Brit. Anim. 507. Stark 

 Elem. ii. 420. Johnston in Trans. Newc. Soc. ii. 248, pi. 7. Roget Bridgew. 

 Treat, i. 174, fig. 71, 72. (bad.) P. rubra, Pall. Elench. 368. P. Britannica, 

 Ellis and Soland. Zooph. 6 1 . Pennatole fosforea, Delle Cldaie Anim. s. Vert. 

 Nap. iii. 4, and 11, tav. 31, fig. 15. 



Hob. Deep water. " It is found in great plenty sticking to the 

 baits on the fishermen's lines, round the coasts of this kingdom; es- 



* Formed from Penna, a quill, which the species so remarkably resemble that we 

 may say in the words of Lamarck, " II semble, en effet, que la nature, en formant ce 

 corps animal compose, ait voulu copier la forme exterieure d'une plume d'oiseau." 

 Anim. s. Vert. ii. 425. . 



