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he now considers it distinct, he has given it the specific 

 name (truncata) which I suggested. 



There was, along with the figure of A. spathulata and A. 

 ligulata, the figure of another Anguinaria. I was glad to 

 see it and to get the name of it, for I had got very fine 

 specimens of it on a beautiful alga from Port Phillip, which 

 I received from my kind friend Dr. D. Curdie. I saw that it 

 was quite distinct from our British A. spathulata, and supe- 

 rior to it both in size and in beauty. Instead of terminating 

 like a surgeon's spatula or a serpent's head, it was shaped 

 exactly like a ladle, the open part at the top spreading out 

 and becoming quite circular. Though I have a good col- 

 lection of foreign zoophytes, I have few books in which they 

 are described and figured ; so that they either remain un- 

 named, or have temporary names assigned. To the ladle- 

 shaped one I gave the interim name of A. cocklearis, so 

 that I was very glad to receive from Mr. Busk an excellent 

 figure of it under the true name A. dilatata. 



Genus X. HIPPOTHOA, Lamouroux. 



Gen. Char. Polypidom confervoid, adherent and creeping, 

 calcareous, irregularly branched, the branches frequently ana- 

 stomosing, formed of elliptical cells linked to each other at 



