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Gen. 53. ANGUINARIA, Lam. 



In the form of a plant, climbing, slender, and fistulous ; cells 

 straight, filiform, tubular, distant, slightly clavate or spatu- 

 lous, with the openings placed laterally below the summit 



A. spatulata, Lam. (Sertularia Anguina, Lin.) Inhabits seas of 

 Europe. Ellis, Cor. pi. 22, No. 11, fig. c, C, D. 



Gen. 54. CELLARIA, Lam. 



With tubular branched stems, subarticulated, horny, shining, 

 calcareous ; cells in rows, either concatenated, or adnate, or 

 incrusted at the surface. 



C. salicornia, Lam. (C.farciminoides, Soland.) Dichotomous ; ar- 

 ticulated ; joints cylindrical ; cells rhomboidal. Inhabits Euro- 

 pean ocean. Ellis, Cor. pi. 23, No. 1, fig. a, A. 



C. thuia, Lam. (Sertularia, Ellis.) Stem rigid, flexuose, pani- 

 culated above ; branches dichotomous ; cells compressed, wide at 

 the base. Inhabits seas of Europe, on oyster beds, common. 

 Ellis, Cor. pi. 5, No. 9, fig. b, B. 



C. reptans, Lam. (Sertularia, Ellis.) Creeping, dichotomous, ar- 

 ticulated ; cells alternate, unilateral ; osculi with short spinous 

 processes at the top. Inhabits seas of Europe. Ellis, Coral. 

 pi. 20, No. 3, fig. b, B. 



Gen. 55. LIRIOZOA, Lam. Cellaria, Ellis. 



Branched, calcareous ; stems tubular, jointed, creeping ; cells 

 oblong, pedicellate, in clusters of three, with opposite clusters 

 at the top of the joints. 



L. Caribcea, Lam. (Cellaria tulipifera, Ellis.) Calcareous, sub- 

 diaphanous, clavate ; cells in opposite clusters, and terminal. 

 Inhabits West Indian seas Ellis, Zooph. pi. 5, fig. , A. 



Gen. 56. SERIALARIA, Lam. Sertularia^ Lin. 

 Branched, horny, with slender fistulous stems, furnished with cy- 

 lindrical projecting cells, parallel, cohering in series, in mas- 

 ses, or in a continuous spiral form. 



* Cells cohering in separate masses. 



S. lendigera, Lam. Much branched, diffuse ; branches filiform, 

 jointed, subdichotomous ; cells in distinct rows. Inhabits seas of 



Europe Ellis, Coral, pi. 15, No. 24, fig. b, B. 



** Cells cohering in continuous spiral masses. 



S. convoluta, Lam. Stem alternately branched ; branches simple, 

 filiform ; cells cohering in a continuous spire, surrounding the 

 branches. Inhabits seas of New Holland. Lam. ii. 131. 



Gen. 57. PLUMULARJA, Lam. Sertularia, Lin. 

 Horny, branched, with slender fistulous simple or branched stalks, 

 furnished with calyciferous ramuli ; cells prominent, sessile, 

 dentiform, subaxillary ; vesicles subpedunculate. 



