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Of the Occulinae, the animal is unknown, but it is contained in 

 3 



Fig 67. Flabelluin pavoninum (Lessor). 

 1. Vertical position. 2. Upper edge, with its plates and median thread. 3. Form of the animal. 



regular round radiated cells, more or less prominent, and scattered on 

 the surface of a solid, com- 

 pact, fixed tree-like coral. 

 The individuals dispose them- 

 selves in ascending spiral 

 lines, and appear to be re- 

 gularly dispersed on the sur- 

 face of the several branches. 

 The typical species, 0. vir- 

 ginea, formerly known as 

 the White Coral, although it 

 differs widely in reality from 

 the true Coral, both in its 

 structure and by its star-like 

 polypiferous cells (Fig. 68), 

 is found in the Mediterranean 

 and also in the equatorial 

 seas. Over the specimen we 

 see (2) a portion of a branch 

 magnified, in order that 

 the reader may appreciate 

 numerically the form of 



polype OVer its Cells. Fj g- C8 - Occulina virginea (Lamarck). 



The species formerly named Occulina flabelliformis, and which now 



