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ZOOPHYTES. 



This species is shorter and stouter than the following, with the pin- 

 nules, when uriexpanded, imbricately crowded, and longer than the 

 breadth of the rachis, and full three times this breadth when alive and 

 expanded. 



Pennatula mirabilis, Miiller, Zool., Dan., 



tab. 11, figs. 1-3. 

 , Linn. Syst. Nat., 1322. 



, Ellis and Solander, 63. 



, Sowerby, Brit. Misc., 51, pi. 25. 



Virgularia mirabilis, Lamk., ii. 647, No. 1. 



, Deslongchamps, Encyc., 780. 



, Grant, Edinb. Jour, of Sci., No. 14. 



, Ehrcnberg, op. cit., G. xxvv., sp. 1. 



, Johnston's Brit. Zooph., 179, pi. 24. 



, Cuvier, Reg. Anim., 1837, pi. <J1. 



fig. 2 ; same as Miiller's. 

 Virgularia laxipinna, Blainv., Man., 511, 



pi. 90, fig. 5. 

 Scirpearia mirabilis, Templelon, Mag. Nat. 



Hist., ix. 470. 



2. VIRGULARIA JUNCEA. (Pallas.} 



V.JiKformis, longissima (2-3'), stipite vermiformi, 5-6" longo, crassiore ; 

 pinnulis distichis brevissimis, contractis transversis et arete appressis 

 et scepe paulo remotis, rugiformibus ; axe terete, calcareo, fragili. 



Filiform, very long (2 to 3 feet), base vermiform, 5 to G inches long, 

 a little stouter than the rachis; pinnules arranged in two opposite 

 series, very short; when contracted, transverse, close appressed, and 

 often a little remote, resembling series of raised wrinkles ; axis terete, 

 calcareous, fragile. 



The Indian Ocean. Rumphius. Pallas. Esper, who received his 

 specimens from M. Chemnitz. 



The shorter pinnules, like mere wrinkles to the stem, in the pre- 

 served specimen (shorter than the breadth of the rachis), distinguish 

 this species from the preceding. It is found fixed in the mud, and is 

 pulled up with some difficulty. The above description is taken from 

 Esper. 



Sagitta marina alba, Rumph. Mus. Belg., 

 43, No. 1, and Amb., vi. 258; the Ma- 

 lay name, according to Rumphius, is 

 Allan g-laut, or Sasaj)po-laut. 



Pennatula, juncea, Pallas, Zooph., 371, and 

 Gmel. Linn., 3866. 



The V. juncea, of Lamarck, is described by him from specimens found in the " Euro- 

 pean Ocean ;" yet he refers to Esper's figures as representing if, who expressly states, 



, Esper, Pflanz., iii. 87, tab. Penn. 4, 

 figs. 1-6. 

 , Deslongchamps, Encyc., 781. 



, Cuvier, Reg. Anim., 2d ed., iii. 318. 



, Blainv., Man., 514, pi. 90, fig. 3. 

 , Ehrenb., G. xxxv., sp. 2. 



