590 ZOOPHYTES. 



The stout non-ramose form, and scattered polyps, distinguish the 

 Veretilla from the species of the following genera. The eight polyps 

 are fringed with papillae, as in other Alcyonaria. 



1. VERETILLUM CYNOMORIUM. (Pallas.} Cuvier. 



V. aurantiacum, crasso-cylindricum, stipite subgranulosum ; polypi* 

 albicantibus ; axe tenui. 



Orange-coloured, stout cylindrical ( an inch in diameter) ; base sub- 

 granulous, polyps whitish, axis very slender. 



Mediterranean Sea. Pallas. Lamarck. Edwards. 



Pcnnatida cynomorium, Pallas, Zooph., , Ehrenberg, G. xxx., sp. 1. 



373 ; Misc. Zool., tab. 13, fig. 1, 4. , Milne Edwards, Reg. Anim., Cuvier, 



, Ellis, Phil. Trans., liii., 434, tab. 21, 1837, pi. 91, fig. 1 ; the animals from 



figs. 3-5. nature. 



, Lamk., ii. 639, No. 2. The Vcretillum lateum, of Quoy and Gay- 



, Blainv., Faune franfaise, Zooph., pi. mard (Ann. des Sci. Nat., 1827, x. 188, 



2, figs. 1 and 2 ; Man., 518, pi. 89, fig. 2. pi. 9, fig. 4), is described as six inches 

 , Rapp, Nova Acta, Goes. Leop. Car. long, and an inch and a half in diameter, 



Nat. Curios., t. 14, pi. 38. of an orange colour, with whitish polyps. 





2. VERETILLUM PHALLOIDES. (Pallas.) Cuvier. 



V. cinerascens, viz digiti crassitie ; fere 6" longum, cylindri^im, sub- 

 davaium ; axe subulato, quadr angular i. 



Cinereous, scarcely as large as the finger, nearly 6 inches long, cylin- 

 drical, subclavate ; axis subulate, quadrangular. 



East Indies, near Amboyna. 



Pennatula phalloides, Pallas, Zooph., 373; Veretillum phalloides, Lamarck, ii. 638, 



Misc. Zool., 179, tab. 13, figs. 5-9. No. 1. 



Veretillum phalloides, Cuvier, Reg. Anim., , Blainville, Man., 518. 



2d ed., iii. 319. , Ehrenberg, G. xxx., sp. 3. 



APPENDIX. The Pennatula stellifera, of Miiller (Zool. Dan., i. 133, 

 No. 67, tab. 36, figs. 1-3), is referred with a query to the genus Um- 

 bellularia, by Blainville, to Funiculina by Lamarck, and to Vere- 





