494 ZOOPHYTES. 



nified 3 diameters ; 2 f, part of a transverse section, enlarged 12 

 diameters ; fig. 2 a, another variety. 



Feejee Islands. Exp. Exp. 



This is a small fragile ramose species, either spreading palmate, 

 and obtuse, or divided into several crowded nearly terete branchlets, 

 often tapering to a point. The cells are about one-fifth of a line in 

 diameter, and the papilla one-third of a line in length. 



Figure 3 of the same plate, represents a specimen which is much 

 more compact than the above, but is probably only a variety of it. 



5. MANOPORA COMPRESSA. (Linn.} Dana. 



M. caukscens, ramosa, subdichotoma et kbata, compressiuscula. Co- 

 rallum fragile, granuloso-asperum ; cellis undique prominulis, scdbris, 

 stellatis, pkrumque Q-radiatis. 



Caulescent ramose, subdichotomous and lobate ; somewhat com- 

 pressed. Corallum fragile, granuloso-asperate ; cells every where 

 a little prominent, scabrous, stellate, and generally with 6 rays. 



Mediterranean Sea? 



Corallium asperum, &c., Marsilli, Hist. figure the branches are half an inch wide, 



Phys., 143, tab. 31, fig. 149, and tab. with the sides irregularly lobed. The 



32. figs. 150, 151. The specimen was six-rayed cells and granulous surface are 



from near Marseilles, off the shores of represented in his figure 3. 



Riou. The branches are from one- This species is united by Lamarck, Ehren- 



quarter to one-half an inch wide, and berg, and others, with the " l\Ii/lej>ora 



are described as rough-granulous like aspera," which differs decidedly in its 



shagreen. " poris fissis," and has been made into 



Millepora compressa, Linn., ed. xii. 1283. the new genus Errina, by Gray. 



, Esper, i. 203, tab. 10. In Esper's 



6. MANOPORA CRISTA-GALLI. (H. 4- Ehrenberg.) Dana. 



M. arrecto-subcespitosa, incise lobata, compressa, angulosa vel ahta, kbis 

 S(spe cultratis. Corallum fragik, super fide partim spinukso-aspera ; 

 cellis per spinuks raro obvattalis, conspicue Q-radiatis, cristis non 

 celliferis. 



