210 WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 76. Tubularia. 



Adhering to Fuci and other marine fubstances, white, femitranf- 

 parent, with 4-toothed cells. 



683. Fl. avicularis. Foliaceous, with fascicled palinat 

 truncate branches, smooth on , one side, with .opake 

 beaked capsules near the edge farmed like a parrot's 

 beak : ceHs on one side, armed with branched , 

 spines.' 



Sower by' s British Miscellany ii. p. ei. tafi.fi\ 



B'lacki.rti, about 2 inches across, forming a fphacrtcal mass : celts 

 alternate, referabling articulations, furroundcd with long .fpine's : 

 capsules sessile. 



6^4. Fl. membranacea. Parasitical, membranaceous, 

 with oblong-quadrangular cells pointed at the upper 

 projecting angles. 



Mull. Zobl. Dan. .'/. 163. tab. 117. /. i. 2. 

 Adhering to Fuci and shells, very thin, grey or whitish. 



7^ TUBULARIA. 



685. T.indivisa* CJusjtered, -with undivided joiatetl stems 

 tapering to the base. 



Ellis Corallines p. 31. tab. 16. /. c. 



Stems 2 or 3 inches high, adhering to rocks and shells, straw- 

 colour, interwoven with each other, with very narrow joints 

 barely twisted ; bodies ot the polypes pale red, their heads bright 

 crimfon. 



686. T. muscoides. Clustered, simple or sligtly forked, 

 here and there wrinkled their whole length. 



Ellis. Corallines, p. 30. tab. 16. /. b. 



Refembles the last, but is about half the size and height and 

 of equal thickness throughout, is fometimes simply branched, with 

 the joints twistqd.hsre and there, and lhe polypes are rich 

 crinifon. 



687. 'T. ramosa. Solitary, much branched, equal, with 

 the branches twisted at the forks.' 



Ellis Corallines p. 31. tab. i6./. a. r. 17. f. a. A. 



Stems 3 or 4. inches high, repeatedly forked, pale grey with 

 crimfon heads, very slender, twisted at the infcrtion of the 

 branches, and a little below them, 



688. T .Jistulosa. Repeatedly forked ,, with short cylindri- 

 cal joints covered with lozenge-shaped impressed 

 cells. 



Ellis Corallines p. 46. tab. 23. 



About 3 inches- high, and about as thick as a piece of whipcord i 

 stem's ending in slender roembranaceous tubes, the terminal 

 branches clavate. ' 



689^ T. "Cmma. Slightly branched, filiform, papyra- 

 ceous, jointed, wrth ovate pointed caosules perfo- 

 rated with a dilatable mouth, and terminated by cy- 

 lindrical armed tentacula. 



Catrtn. Pall. Spicil Ztol. 10. p. 40. tab. 4.7". 8. 



Adhering without tubular radicles to Fuci and Sertulariar, fandy 

 or deep red, narrow at the bafe, without head or retractile tenta- 

 cula : capfules perforated over the whole furface, protruding the 

 hyaline tentacula globular at th end, and producing eggs at 

 the bafe. 



690, A. fljtjfefr, Simple, slightly aimulate, soft* 



