PENNATULlDili. IS) 



20. Stylatula elongata. 



Stylatula elongata, Verrill, Hull. Mas. Comp, Zool. p, 80. 

 Virgularia elongata, Gabb, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1863, ii. p. 167. 



ffab. California ; San Francisco. 



Larger and stouter than S. gracilis ; pinnae broader and more over- 

 lapping, leaving a naked space between the rows for only a short 

 distance in the middle, twenty occupying an inch ; the spines are 

 also larger and fewer. 



Dr. Herklots refers to the Funicidina cylindrica of Lamarck with 

 doubt. It has only been described from some stony axis. I think 

 there is little doubt of this being the axis of the coral which I 

 described as Primnoella aiistralasice, the axis of which well agrees 

 with Lamarck's description. He also inquires what is the Pennatida 

 scirpea of Pallas (Zooph. p. 372. n. 218) ? which has not been recog- 

 nized in collections. — Gray, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. 1860, v. p. 21. 



The Alcyonoid described and figured by Linne under the name of 

 Pennatida mirahilis (Mus. Adolph. Frid. Reg. t. 19. f. 1) appears to 

 have little analogy with Virgidaria inirabilis. It has a thin slender 

 stem, attenuated at each end, and with a simple series of very short 

 polypes on each side. Cuvier, in 1817, formed for it the genus 

 Scirpeaire (Reg. Anim. iv. p. 85) ; Lamarck placed it under the 

 genus Funicidmre, by the side of Pavonaire, under the name of 

 F. cylindrica (H. A. s. V. ii. p. 423, ed. 2. p. 640) ; Fleming thinks 

 it is not distinct from Virgidaire (Hist. Brit. Anim. p. 507) ; and M. 

 de Blainville regards it as only a species of Gorgonia (see Man. d'Act. 

 p. 515) ; but none of these opinions appear to M. Milne-Edwards to 

 be admissible (see Corall. i. p. 114). 



Fam. 2. PENNATULID^ or PENNIFERA. 



Coral elongate or broad, pinnate ; base sterile, subclavate. Polypes 

 in expanded, fan-shaped pinnies that arise from a narrow base in a 

 series on each side of the front edge of the rachis. Polypes retrac- 

 tile. Axis calcareous, slender. 



Pennatuleae, Gt-ay, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. 1860, v. p. 21, 



a. Pinnules eUmgaie, angular. 

 * Back of the rachis granular or tubercular, with undeveloped polypes. 



8. PENNATULA. 

 Coral pen-shaped, oblong. Rachis rough behind, spinidose. Stem 

 short, thick, with a sunken central groove and a scries of spines on 



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