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The British species is much the finer and slenderer of the 

 two ; the pinnge are longer, the hjdrothecte more evenly tubular 

 and free from dentations, wliile the absence of transverse 

 wrinkles over the whole of the ovarian capsules is marked, 

 thougli I have gathered British specimens in which the prox- 

 imal three fourths of these capsules was strongly and deeply 

 wrinkled. 



I notice that the soutliern specimens bear the same relation 

 to the east-coast ones as Mr. Norman's Shetland variety does 

 to the ordinary British species. 



Family Plumulariidse, Hincks, Brit. Hydr. Zooph. 



I intend to be very brief regarding the specimens under this 

 head at present, and only to give workers a few items of im- 

 portance about them, until I have the opportunity of making 

 more observations. 



Genus Antennularia. 



Antennularia antennina of New Zealand is identical with 

 the British species. 



Genus Aglaophenia. 

 AglaopJienia pennatula. 



I have recently got several fresli specimens of this, and I 

 am satisfied it is different horn A. pennatula (Hincks). In 

 my sketch fig. 37, pi. xx. loc. cit.^ the calycles are not as tubular 

 as in nature. 



Aglaophenia Huttoni and^. incisa, mihi, loc. cit. pp. 289, 290. 

 I have not yet obtained fresh specimens of these. 



Plumularia simplex, mihi, ought to be discarded and placed 

 among the Sertulariidse. I was misled in my first specimen 

 by distorted appearances ; but fresh specimens proved to me 

 that I had been wrong. I think it fair to acknowledge mistakes 

 as freely and as early as possible. I will place this species in 

 its proper position in a future paper. 



In conclusion, allow me to state that I should be obliged if 

 authors in this department would exchange with me their 

 papers for specimens. 



