108 HISTORY OF BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 



variously branched, the fibres cylindrical, tubular, filled with a 

 soft pulp. Polypes hanging from the extremity of every branchlet, 

 non-retractile, roundish, somewhat pedicled, naked and fleshy, 

 the body encircled with a zone of filiform tentacula ; the mouth 

 central and subtubular. Johnston. Name from two Greek words 

 signifying well, and a tree. 



1. EUDENDRIUM RAMEUM. (Plate II. fig. 5.) 



Hab. On shells and stones, deep water. Shetland and 

 Leith, Dr. Coldstream; Bay of Whitburn, Miss Dale; 

 Northumberland and Berwickshire, frequent, Dr. Johnston ; 

 Scarborough, Mr. Bean; Whitehaven, Mr. W. Thompson; 

 Dublin Bay, Mr. Hassall ; Cornwall, Mr. Couch ; Aberdeen- 

 shire, Mr. Macgillivray ; near Liverpool, Mr. Rylands. 



Dr. Johnston very truly says, "This animal production 

 so perfectly resembles a tree in miniature deprived of its 

 leaves, that persons unacquainted with the nature of zoo- 

 phytes cannot be persuaded that it is not of a vegetable 

 nature." It is from three to six inches high. It is irre- 

 gularly divided into many compound branches. The po- 

 lypes are of a reddish colour, the tentacula whitish and 

 numerous. 



This zoophyte has not been found on the Ayrshire coast. 

 We have fine specimens from Mr. Tudor, Bootle. It is well 



