TRIBE II. CARYOPHYLLACEA. 4Q1 



4. ANTHOPHYLLUM CESPITOSUM. (Esper.} Dana. 



A. glomeratum, scepe erectum et lobatum. Corallum caliculis prope 3'" 

 latis, compressiusculis, supra leviter striatulis, e massti spumosd J" sur- 

 rectis ; lamellis tenuissimis, papyraceis, paulum remotis, 6-9 valde 

 latioribus, %'" exsertis, oblique truncatis. 



Glomerate, often erect and lobed. Corallura with the calicles about 

 | of an inch in diameter, a little compressed, very faintly striate 

 above, projecting an inch from a spumous base; lamellae very 

 thin, papyraceous, rather remote, 6 to 9 much broader than the 

 others ; a line exsert, obliquely truncate. 



Plate 28, fig. 4, natural size ; also fig. 23, page 62. 



East Indies. Exp. Exp. 



This common species forms large glomerate masses, a foot or more 

 across, and more or less lobed or subdivided, occasionally rising into 

 stout subcyliridrical forms. The evenly thin, truncate, and slightly 

 exsert lamellae give the cell a neat, and also a peculiarly open ap- 

 pearance. The larger lamellae almost meet at centre, leaving hardly 

 a line of interval, and the cell is very shallow. When broken off near 

 the bottom, the cell presents a distinct star of six or eight rays, meet- 

 ing at the centre, with smaller lamellee between. These characters 

 distinguish the species from the fasciculatum, in which the lamellae 

 have not the paper-like thinness, arid are more exsert. The calicles 

 vary much in size ; but they are generally a fourth of an inch in their 

 longest diameter, with the exterior faintly striate above. 



Mad. cespitosa, Esper, i. tab. 27. Esper Antkophyllum Esperi, Schweigger, Handb. 

 seems to have incorrectly considered his 417. 

 species the Mad. cespitosa of Linnaeus. 



5. ANTHOPHYLLUM HYSTRIX. (Dana.} 



A. glomeratum ; tentaculis bursiformibus, Icete virentibus, et aliis apice 

 pallide virentibus, coralligenis, itaque erectis lamdlam cakaream inclu- 

 dentibus. Corallum caliculis 6-8'" altis, et scepe 4-5'" latis, com- 

 pressiusculis, extus remote carinatis, e massd spumosd surrectis ; 

 lamellis cultriformibus, scepe 3'" exsertis, apice subacutis. 



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