222 HISTORY OF BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 



Mr. Alder mentions that the fine specimen of Oculina 

 prolifera was presented to the Newcastle Natural History 

 Society by Mr. Atkinson ; that it is in their Museum, and 

 measures eight or ten inches across. 



Genus XXV. TURBINOLIA, Lamarck. 



Gen. Char. Animal like the Actinia, single. Polypidom sim- 

 ple, inversely conical, furrowed on the outside, pointed at the 

 base, and terminated above in a lamellated cup or cell. Johnston. 



1. TURBINOLIA BOREALIS. 



Hab. Zetland, Dr. Fleming. 



" It is inversely conical, pointed, subarcuated, with a 

 concave disc, and a prominent centre ; the plates, though 

 defaced, appear to have been equal. It is about five-tenths 

 of an inch in height, and nearly the same in breadth across 

 the star." (Fleming.) 



2. TURBIKOLIA MILLETIANA, Mr. M' Andrew. 



Hab. Off Sicily ; off the Irish Isles of Arran, Mr. Barlee. 



This, as represented in Dr. Johnston's plate xxxv., fig. 1, 

 2, 3, is a beautiful little coral, shaped like a boy's top, with 

 twenty-four longitudinal ribs. It is scarcely half an inch 

 in height, and at the top about a quarter of an inch in 

 diameter. Professor Forbes states that it is identical with 



