298 ZOOPHYTES. 



at the margin. The spines below are crowded and large throughout, 

 except a small space about the centre. A smaller specimen (the one 

 figured) is circular and five and a half inches across, one and one- 

 eighth inches thick at centre, and half an inch thick at the margin. 

 The lamellae are undulate as in the larger specimens, but the teeth are 

 more unequal. Below, the spines are often one-sixth of an inch long 

 to within one inch of the centre. Both are nearly flat below and con- 

 vex above. 



Figure 6, plate 19, represents part of an animal of a Fungia, sup- 

 posed to be this species, from the Samoan Islands. The specimen 

 from which the drawing was made, was afterwards lost. The ten- 

 tacles are green and bursiforrn, and the disk is purplish-umber. 



11. FUNGIA HORRID A. (Dana.) 



F. orbicularis, planiuscula. Corallum lamdlis valde incequalibus, re- 

 motis, ampliter eroso-dentatis ; subtus, remote lamello-radiatum, et 

 crassime echinatum. 



Orbiculate, nearly flat. Corallurn with the lamellae very unequal, 

 remote, very coarsely eroso-dentate : below, remotely lamello-radiate, 

 and strongly echinate. 



Plate 19, figure 7. 



Feejee Islands. Exp. Exp. 



This species is remarkable for its coarse and ragged look, the 

 lamellae being very unequal and distant, and raggedly eroso-den- 

 tate. Some of the teeth are a fourth of an inch broad, and the 

 larger have sometimes a carinate process on the lateral surface. In a 

 young specimen, four inches in diameter, the under surface is radiate 

 from the centre, and the larger series of spines are about a quarter of 

 an inch apart, with the spines themselves contorted, and over an 

 eighth of an inch long ; the intervals between them are finely striate 

 (six to seven strise), but not echinate. In an adult, six inches in dia- 

 meter, and two-thirds of an inch thick, the larger series contain clus- 

 tered spines; and between these are a few less prominent series. 

 About the centre, for a breadth of two inches, the surface is scarcely 

 radiate, and the spines are short papilla? and crowded. 



