206 NUTTING [l88] 



Family PLUMULARID^^. 



Trophosome. — Hydrothecae cup-shaped, usually more or less adnate 

 to the stem or branches, and always arranged on one side only of the 

 hydrocladia, or branches, on which they grow. Nematophores present. 



Gonosome. — Reproduction by means of planulae. No medusae. 



PLUMULARIA. 



Trophosome. — Hydrocladia unbranched alternate, nematophores on 

 slender pedicels ; hydrothecae without marginal teeth. Stem not canal- 

 iculated. 



Gonosome. — Gonangia oval, without corbulae or protective struc- 

 tures of any kind. 



PLUMULARIA LAGENIFERA Allman. 



Plumularia lagenifera AiAM.x^, Jour. Linn. See. Zool., xix, p. 157, 1885. — 

 Nutting, American Hydroida, Part i, The Plumularidae, p. 65, 1900. 



Plumularia californica Marktanner Turneretscher, Annalen des k. k. 

 Naturhist. Hofmuseums, v, No. 2, p. 255, 1890. — Nutting, Hydroida 

 from Alaska and Puget Sound, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. xxi, p. 741, 

 1899. 



Distribution. — Berg Inlet,Fopof Island, Alaska (Harriman Exped. ) ; 



Puget Sound (Nutting) ; Coast of California (Nutting) . 



PLUMULARIA PALMERI Nutting. 



Plumularia palmeri Nutting, American Hydroida, Part i, The Plumularidae, 

 p. 65, 1900. 



Distribution. — Victoria, B. C. (Harriman Exped.) ; San Diego. 

 California (Nutting) . 



This is the only species in the collection that was not from Alaska. 

 It seemed best to include it in the list, particularly as a new locality is 

 thereby noted. 



