FOSSIL ACTINOZOA. 



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secreted by the coenosarc (fig. 40). The entire compound 

 corallum consists, therefore, of a greater or less number of 



Fig. 38. Petraia calicula. 

 Lower Silurian. 



Fig. 39. Za.phren.tis Stokesi. 

 Lower Silurian. 



" corallites " bound together by a calcareous basis, which is 

 secreted by the coenosarc, and is called the " ccenenchyma." 



Fig. 40. SynJielia Sharpeana. 



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In practice, however, this theoretical view of the subject is not 

 always borne out. The compound corallum may, and often 

 does, consist (as in fig. 41) of a number of corallites produced 



