380 ZOOPHYTES. 



striatis, scabriculis, inter dum coalitis; cellis concavis ; lamellis subce- 

 qualibus. 



Elongate cylindrical stems, nearly erect and crowdedly fasciculate, 

 scarcely 2 lines in diameter; polyps bright orange. Corallum 

 with the branches striate, slightly scabrous, sometimes coalescing ; 

 cells concave ; lamellae subequal. 



The Mediterranean Sea; ./Egean Sea, where, according to E. 

 Forbes, it occurs in water not exceeding six or eight feet in depth. 



Acropora cespitosa, &c., Gualtieri Ind., Cladocora Icevigata, Ehrenb., G. li. sp. 4. 



back of tab. 61. Cladocora cespitosa, E. Forbes, Rep. Brit. 



Mad.flexuosa, Ellis and Sol., 151, tab. 31, Assoc. for 1843, pp. 151, 153, 155. 



figs. 5, 6. Ehrenberg's C. cespitosa, is another species ; 



Mad.fascicularis (?), Esper, i. 157, tab. 29. Ellis's figure, tab. 31, is referred to under 



Caryophyttia cespitosa, Lamarck, ii. 352, his kevigata, which he thus describes : 



No. 8. " Bipollicaris, tubulis 2'" latis, fascicu- 

 , Lamour., 49, tab. 31, figs. 5, 6; latis, cylindricis, subacqualibus, extus 



Encyc., 171. substriatis, glabris, parce ramosis, rccti- 



, Bertolonii, Amaen. Ital., 247. usculis, elongatis, ore oblongo, laminis 



-, Blainville, Man., 345. internis, prope apicem concavis aut rectis, 



Galaxea cespitosa, Oken's Zool., i. 73. prole interdum coalescente." 



Anthoph. cespitosum,Schv/e\g. Handb. 417. 



2. CARYOPHYLLIA CONFERTA. (Dana.) 



C. breviter cespitosa, subconvexa, caulibus flexuosis valde confertis, ferme. 



2'" crassis, et 2'" animatis. Corallum caliculis subtiliter striatulis, 



ferme 36 lamettis subaqualibus, majoribus alternis, paululum exsertis. 



Short cespitose, somewhat convex, with the branches flexuous and 

 much crowded, nearly 2 lines in diameter, alive for 2 lines. 

 Corallum with the calicles very finely striate, about 36 subequal 

 lamella?, alternately larger, a very little exsert. 



Plate 30, fig. 6, part of corallum, natural size. 



This species has the flexuous branches of thefazuosa, but they are 

 nearly as small as in the cespitosa. 



The Cladocora cespitosa, of Ehrenberg may belong here ; it is described as follows : 

 " Tripollicaris, tubulis 2'" latis, fasciculato-glomeratis, cylindricis, subotqualibus, extus 



