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beginning of the stomodfeum. Only in one section was there 

 a hint of a blind stomodseal insinking insinuating itself into 

 the ccelenteron, but the appearance was not sufficiently 

 definite to be convincing. 



Apart from the embryos, I have found little that is new 

 to report, but I thought it might be both useful and interest- 

 ing to gather together some of the references to this very 

 beautiful northern Alcyonarian, and to submit these to a 

 Society which has been for so long a repository for observa- 

 tions on the Scottish Fauna. 



Kefeuences. 

 1728. LiNNE, Systema Naturas, vol. xii. p. 1289. 

 1766. Pall.\s, Elenchus Zoophytorum, p. 204 {Gorgonia reseda). 

 1786. Ellis and Solander, Natural History of Zoophytes, p. 8-1, 



pi. xiii. figs. 1 and 2 (Gwgonia lepadifera). 

 1794. EsPER, Pflanzenthiere, part ii. pp. 70-78, pi. x-v-iii. 

 1847. C. Stokbs, Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, vol. 



xliii. pp. 258-262. 

 1861. E. Grube [Description of a New Coral {Lithojyrimnoa 



arctica) and Remarks upon its Systematic Position], 



Abh. Schles. Ges. vaterl. Cultur. (Abth. Naturw. u. 



Med.), p. 16.i, cf. Ann. Nnt. Hist, vol. xii. (1863) 



pp. 166-7. 

 1866 A. E. Verrill, Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. i. p. 9. 

 1870. Gray, Catalogue Lithophytes, p. 44. 

 1883. Wilson, E. B., Development of Renilla, Phil. Trans., 



vol. clxxiv. p. 723. 

 1883. KowALEVSKV et Marion, Documents pour I'histoire em- 



bryogenique des Alcyonaires, Mem. Mus. Marseille, 



vol. i. Mem. 4. 

 1887. Koch, G. von, Die Gorgoniden des Golfes von Neapel. 

 1900. Lacaze-Duthiers, H. de, Coralliaires du Golfe du LioUj 



Arch. Zool. Exper., 3rd series, vol. viii. pp. 353-456. 

 1906. J. Versluys, Die Gorgoniden der Siboga Expedition, 



II. Die Primnoidse, pp. 84, 85. 

 190G. J. Arthur Thomson and W. D. Henderson, Lebendigge- 



barende Arten von Alcyonaceen, Zoologischer Anzeiger, 



vol. XXX., No. 16. 



Eeference to Plates. 



Plate I. Photograph of the Colony. 



Plate II. A Twig in Natural Size and Colour. 



