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ZOOPHYTES. 



Alcyonium digitatum, Linn., 1294 Gme- 



lin, 3812. 

 , Ellis and Solander, 175, pi. 1, fig. 



7 a polyp, badly figured. 



, Bosc, Vers, iii., 156, pi. 30, fig. 4, 5. 



, Fabricius, Faun. Gronl., 447. 



-, Shaw's Misc., ix., pi. 326 bad figure. 



, Milne Edwards, Cuvier, Reg. Anim., 



1837, pi. 94, fig. 3, and Ann. des Sci. 



Nat., 2d ser., t. iv. 



Alcyonium lobatum, Pallas, Zooph., 351. 

 , Lamour., Pol. flex., 336, pi. 12, fig. 



4, and plates 13 and 14, fig. 1. 

 Alcyonium exos, Spix, Ann. du Mus., xiii. 



451, pi. 33. 

 Lobularia digitata, Lamk., ii. 631, No. 1. 



, Fleming's Brit. Anim., 515. 



, Blainville, Man., 521. 



, Ehrenb., G. xxv., sp. 3. 



, Johnston, Trans. Newcastle Soc., ii. 



250, pi. 8, and Brit. Zooph., 188, pi. 26 



and 26*. 



, Grant, Edinb. Journ. of Sci., viii. 104. 



-, Roget, Bridgewater Treatise, i. 162, 



fig. 56. 

 The Lobularia grandiftora of Chamisso, 



from the English Channel (Ehrenb., G. 



xxv., sp. 2), agrees in its description 



with the figure by Johnston. 

 Probably also : 

 Alcyonium rubrum, Miiller, Zool., Dan. iii. 



pi. 82, figs. 1-4. 

 Anthelia rubra, Blainv., Man., 524, pi. 88, 



fig. 7. 

 Sympodium rubrum, Ehrenb.. G. xxviii., 



sp. 5. 

 Alcyonium arenosum (?), Shaw's Misc., 



viii., pi. 272. 



2. ALCYONIUM CYDONIUM. (Miiller.} 



A. glomeratum, scepe conoideum, indivisum, extus coriaceum, rigidum, spi- 

 culis cakareis internis numerosis, et ad superficiem s<zpe tricuspidatis. 







Glomerate, often conoid, not divided or lobate ; exterior coriaceous and 

 harsh ; internal calcareous spicula very numerous, and often those 

 at the surface tricuspidate. 



Island of Fulah and Norst. Jameson. 



Alcyonium cydonium, Mull., Zool. Dan., 

 iii., 1, tab. 71, figs. 3, 4, represents an 

 oblong subcylindrical zoophyte with a 

 conoidal summit about an inch in diame- 

 ter. The polyps are one and a half lines 

 long, and the expanded star the same in 

 diameter ; in this respect the species dif- 

 fers decidedly from the digitatum. The 

 holes represented by Miiller in the disk, 

 are very doubtful. 



, Lamour., Polyp, flex., 337. 



, Jameson, Mem. Wern. Soc., i.- 563. 



Lobularia conoidea, Lamk., 632, No. 2. 



Cydonium MuUeri, Fleming, Brit. Anim., 

 516. 



, Blainv., Man., 525, pi. 92, fig. 2. 



, Grant., New Edinb. Phil. Jour., i. 195. 



, Johnston, Brit. Zooph., 191. 



Lobularia digitata, young (?), Ehrenb., G. 

 xxv., sp. 3. 



A young zoophyte is of smaller size than 

 the full-grown, but does not consist of 

 smaller polyps. On this principle, which 

 is of general application, the cydonium 

 must be distinct from the digitatum, if 

 we .may trust the figures given. 



