SUBORDER ALCYONARIA. 615 



The Alcyonium wassa of Miiller, Zool. Dan., tab. 71, figs. 1, 2, is near the above in 

 shape and mode of growth ; it is represented with only five tentacles to the star, which 

 must be incorrect, if it be a true zoophyte. Blainville instituted for it the provisory 

 genus Massarium (Man., 526), and Ehrenberg places it with his Sympodia (op. cit., G. 

 xxviii., sp. 7). 



3. ALCYONIUM PALMATUM. (Pallas.} 



A. erectum, stipitatum, superne irregulariter ramoso-palmatum ; ramulis 

 teretibus, vel subcompressis, incequalibus, l-2"' crassis, paucis ; po- 

 lypis !'" exsertis, stella expansa lineari. 



Erect, stipitate, above irregularly ramoso-palmate ; branchlets terete 

 or subcompressed, unequal, 1^ to 2 lines thick, few ; polyps ! lines 

 exsert, expanded star about a line in diameter. 



Mediterranean Sea. 



The branches of this " main de mer," or " main de Ladre," are 

 irregular and not crowded, and the branchlets are short, seldom over 

 two-thirds of an inch without branching again, and mostly a little less 

 than two lines thick. The usual colour is red. 



Manus marina, Aldrovandi, Hist. Nat., lib. Alcyonium exos, Gmelin, Linn., 3810. 



vi., de Zoophytis, 593. , Esper, Pflanz., iii., Alcyon., pi. 2. 



Akyonium palmatum, Pallas, Zooph., 349, Lobularia palmata, Lamk., ii. 632, No. 3. 



No. 203. , Ehrenb., G. xxv., sp. 9. 



, Lamour., Pol. flex., 335. , Blainv., 522, pi. 91, fig. 1. 



, Edwards, Ann. des Sci. Nat., 2d ser., 



iv., pi. 14 and 15 ; and G. Cuvier's Reg. 



Anim., 1837, pi. 93, 94. 



4. ALCYONIUM STELLATUM. (Milne Edwards.} 



A. roseum, breviter ramosum, aut lobato-subdivisum, ramis 3-4'" crassis ; 

 potypis sparsis, stella expansa fere sesquilineari ; super fide scabricula. 



Rose-red, short ramose or lobato-subdivided ; branches 3 to 4 lines 

 thick and rounded ; polyps scattered, the expanded star of tentacles 

 nearly a line and a half in diameter; surface a little rough. 



Island of Chaussey. Milne Edwards. 



