Dr. J. E. Gray on the Fles/ti/ AJeyonoid Corah. 121 



B. The coral crust-Jilr, convex, with more or less erect lobes. The 

 pohjpes to the edge of the crust or the base of the stem, with long 

 cylmclrical tubular bodies ; polypes retractile. 



Fam. 3. Lobulariadae. 



Coral with a liard, crustaceous, smooth external coat. Po- 

 lypes retractile. 



* Polype- cell fat, not raised above the surface of the crust. 



1. LOBULARIA. 



t Coral crust-lile, u'ilh a few roimded lobes or cylimlrical blunt 

 branches. 



1. Lohularia difjitata^ Lamk. {Alcyonium digitatum, Linn. 



A. lohatum, Pallas. A. exos, Spix. A. 2>cdmo, Esper, 

 t. 9, dry. A. lacunosinn, Esper, t. 14, dry. Lohularia 

 (frandijiora^ Chamisso '? Hcdcyonium pcdmo^ Ehr., var. 

 Alcyonium cydonium, Mllller. Lohularia conoidea^ Lamk. 

 Cydonium Miilleri^ Fleming.) 

 Hcd). North vSea, Mediterranean. B.M. 



A. cydonium, Esper, t. 25. f. 1, 2, .3, looks like the section 

 of a dry specimen of this coral. 



2. Lohularia massa. {Alcyonium massa, Miiller, Z. D. t. 81. 



f. 1, 2. Massarium massa, Bhxinv. Sympodium massa, 

 Ehrenb.) ' 



Hah. North Sea. 



3. Lohularia glomerata. {Alcyonium glomcratum, Johnston. 



A. ruhrum and A. sanguineum, Hassall, Couch, Cornish 

 Fauna, t. 13. f.l.) 

 Hah. Coast of Cornwall (Couch). 



4. Lohxdaria carnea. {Alcyonium carneum, Yerrill, Bull. 



Mus. Comp. Zool. 35. A. digitafum, JStimpson.) 

 Hah. North Sea. 



5. Lohularia ruhriformis^^hxh. {Alcyonium ruhriformc, Dana, 



Yerrill, ]\lem. Boston S. N. H. 1. 4.) 

 Hah. North Sea. 



6. Lohdaria Verrillii. {Alcyonium , n. s,, Yen-ill, Rep 



Essex Institute, 18G5, p. 191.) 

 Hah. Sea of Okhotsk (Yen-ill). 



7. Lohularia mollis. {Alcyonium malic, Esper, 1. 18 B, in spi- 



rits. A. granulutum, Esper, t. 24, dry.) 

 Hah, , on a Fucus. B.M. 



