444 CLASSIFICATIONS OF ZOOPHYTES, 



mouth they somewhat resembled the cuttle-fish called Po- 

 lypus by the ancients ; and they were defined to be little 

 gelatinous animals, the mouth of which, encircled with the 

 tentacula, lead into a stomach sometimes simple and some- 

 times furnished with intestines in the form of vessels. II 

 is in this class that we find those innumerable compound 

 animals, with a fixed and solid stem, which were so long 

 regarded as marine plants. The following is a synopsis oi 

 Cuvier's method, as it appears in the last edition of the 

 " Regne Animal."* 



LES POLYPES. 

 Ord. I. P. CHARNUS. 



Les Actinies. (Actinia, Lin.) 

 Actinia. 



Zoanthus. Guv. (iiov. gen.) 

 Les Lucernaires. 

 Lucernaria. 



Ord. II. P. GELATINEUX. 



Hydra. 



Corine. 



Cristatella. Guv. (nov. gen.) 



Vorticella. 



Pedicellaria. 



Ord. III. P. A POLYPIERS. 



Fam. i. Les Polypes a tuyaux. 



Tubipora. 



Tubularia. 



Sertularia. 

 Fam. ii. Polypes a cellules. 



Cellularia. 



Flustra. 



Cellepora. 



Tubulipora. 



Corallina. 



Fam. iii. Les Polypes corticaux. 

 Tribe 1. Des Ceratophytes. 



Antipathes. 



Gorgonia. 



* Paris, 1830, vol. iii. p. 28.9 et seq, 



