88 CLASS II. 



In most the entire Polypary belongs to a single Polyp. In some 

 species no tentacles or arms are distinguishable ; but in others there 

 are numerous thick, conical arms, irregularly scattered; in the 

 middle the large, transverse oral aperture is seen. The animal 

 surrounds the Polypary as well beneath as above. See the figure 

 of Fungia crassitentaculata QUOY and GAIMARD, Voyage de V Astro- 

 labe, Zooph. PI. xiv. f. 3, 4, also transferred into the illustrated 

 edition of CUVIER, R. Ani. Zoophytes, PL LXXXII. fig. 1. GUERIN, 

 Iconogr. Zoophytes, PL xxiu. fig. 6. In other species, according to 

 the observations of ESCHSCHOLTZ, QUOY and GAIMARD and others, 

 many animals are grown together ; the oral apertures, here without 

 tentacles, lie partly in the oblong median depression of the Polypary, 

 partly between the plates. These form the genus Polyphyllia QUOY 

 and GAIMARD, and Herpolitha ESCHSCH. (Ilerpetolitha LEUCK.), 

 Haliglossa HEMPR. and EHRENB. 



See on this genus F. S. LEUCKART, Observat. Zool. de ZoopJiytis Coral- 

 liis, speciatim de genere Fungia. Cum Tabulis IV. ceri incisis. Friburgi 

 Brisigavorum. 1841. 4to. 



Sp. Fungia agariciformis LAM., Madrepora fungites L., Mus. Beslerian. 

 Tab. xxvi. fig. 3. FOBSK. Icon. Her. natural. Tab. XLII., ESPEB Pflan- 

 zenth. Madrep. Tab. I. LEUCKART 1. 1. Tab. iv. fig. i 3, round, with fine 

 toothed laminae ; the animal had been observed before by FORSKAL, and 

 varies in colour ; QUOY and GAIMARD have figured it entirely red, if indeed 

 their figure refers (as EHRENBERG concludes) to this species. Voyage de VUra- 

 nie, Zool. PI. xcvi. fig. i, 2. Fungia limacina LAM., Haliglossa limacina 

 EHRENB., ESPER Pflanzenth. Madrep. Tab. LXIII. ; Fungia talpa, Poly- 

 phyllia talpa, &c. 



Genus Cydolithas (Cyclolites LAM.) Polypary stony, orbiculate, 

 with center sub-lacunose (monostoma), above lamellose, with dicho- 

 tomous lamellae, beneath with plane surface, with concentric rings. 



Fossil species from the oolitic and chalk formations, allied to 

 Fungice with which GOLDFUSS joins them. 



Sp. Cycl. hemisphcerica LAM., BRONN Urweltliche Pflanzenthiere 1825, fol. 

 Tab. v. fig. 1 1 ; Cycl. cancellata LAM., FAUJAS DE SAINT FOND, Hist. nat. 

 de la mont. de Saint Pierre, PI. xxxvm. fig. 8, 9, &c. 



Turlinalia (Turbinolia LAM.) EHRENB. Polypary conical, with 

 base acuminate, cell single, terminal, lamelloso-stellate. (Is this its 

 place?) 



Sp. TurUn. rubra QUOY and GAIM. Voyage de V Astrolabe, Zool. Tom. iv. 

 p. 1 88, PI. xiv. fig. 59. GUERIN, Iconogr. ZoopJiyt. PI. xxiu. fig. 7, 

 Cuv. R. Ani. ed. Ulustr., Zooph. PI. LXXXII. fig. 5. This species, drawn up at 

 New Zealand from a depth of twenty-five fathoms, fastened to a shell, has 



