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FUXICULINlDJi:. 



Fam. 1. FUNICULINID^ 

 or JUNCIFORMES. 



Coral elongate, linear, slender. Polypes retractile or non-re- 

 tractile, placed in transverse ridges on each side of the front of the 

 rachis. 



FuniculinesD, Gray, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist, 1860, v. p. 20. 



a. Ridge of polype-cells attached tfie whole length. 

 * Rachis quadrangidar or compressed ; cells spicidose. 



1. FUNICULINA. 



Coral free, linear, elongate, rather flattened ; base subclavatc, ste- 

 rile. Front surface broad, covered with very close transverse rows of 

 polypes, which are so close as to imbricate one with the other. Cells 

 spiculose. Polypes 5 in each row, cylindrical, elongate, not retrac- 

 tile ; tentacles short, retractile. Axis calcareous, elongate, as long 

 as the coral, quadrangular. 



Funiculina, Latnk. An. s. V. i.; Merklotz, Notices, 1859, p. 8; Gray, 

 Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. 18G0, v. p. 20 ; KoUiker, Ic. Hist. p. 134. 



Scirpearia, Cuvier, R, A. iv. p. 85, ed. 2. iv. 



Pavonaria, Cuvier, R. A. iv. p. 85, ed. 2. iv. ; Dana, Zooph. p. 507; 

 Edw. Sr Haime, Coral, i. p. 214. 



Ellis, Lamarck, and Cuvier describe the polypes as arranged in 

 different manners. 



1. Funiculina quadrangularis. B.M. 



Series of polypes broad and crowded. 



Pennadel pesce pavone, Bohadsch, An. Mar. -a. 112 (copied Ellis, Phil. 



Trans, liii. p. 42(5, and BlainmUc, I. c. t. 90. f. 1). 

 Pennatula quadrangularis, Pallas, Zooph. p. 372. n. 219. 

 Pennatula anteunina, Linn, S. N. p. 350. u. 7 ; Ellis ^ Solander, Zooj)h. 



p. 03. 

 Funiculina tetragona, Lamk. An. s. V. ii. p. 423, ed. 2. ii. p. G41. 

 Pavonaria antennina, Cuvier, R. A. ed. 2. iii. p. 319 ; Scfiweigger, 



Handb, p. 435; Ehrenb, Corall. d. r. M. p. 31. 

 Pavonaria quadrangidaris (axis and spicula), Quekett, Lectures, Hist. 



p. 137, f. 71. 

 I'avonaria quadrangularis, Blainv. Man. d'Ad. p. 516, t. 90. f, 1 (cop. 



Bohadsch) ; Dana, Zooph. p. 597 ; Edw. ^- Haime, Corall. i. p. 215. 

 Funiculina antennina, Jloeven, Handb. ud. 2. i. p. 101. 



Hab. North Sea : in spirits (Stockholm Museum). 



2. Funiculina Forbesii. B.M. 



The polype-cells in short transverse series ; the rachis quadran- 

 gular, large. 



Funiculina Foibef<ii, Verrill, Proc, Mm. Comp. Zool. 

 Pavonaria quadrangularis, Jo/j««<a«, Brit. Zooph, p. 104, f. 01. 



