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MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
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SR scasvacsadonn sens per litora spargite muscum, 
Naiades, et circdm vitreos considite fontes : 
Pollice virgineo teneros hic carpite flores : 
Floribus et pictum, dive, replete canistrum. 
At vos, o Nymphe Craterides, ite sub undas ; 
Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunco 
Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas ~ 
Ferte, Dez pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo.” 
N. Parthenii Giannettasii Ecl,1, 
No. 49. JANUARY 1862. 
I.— Observations on the Structure and Reproduction of Eleuthera, 
Quatref.* By Dr. A. Krounf. 
MR. HINCKS has recently communicated, in the ‘Annals and 
Magazine of Natural History’ (3 ser. vol. vii. p. 73), some ex- 
ceedingly valuable observations on LEleutheria, which are of 
especial importance, because they finally solve the question 
which has hitherto remained in suspense, as to the origin and 
position of this remarkably beautiful Ceelenteran. For although 
Van Beneden and Dujardin had already raised many well-founded 
objections against the opinion of its discoverer (who associated 
Eleutheria with the Hydrina), recognized its relationship to the 
Medusz, and conjectured that it originated from a Medusan or 
Hydroid polype, the latter still remained to be discovered}. In 
this Hincks has succeeded. The parent stock on which Eleutheria 
is produced as a bud belongs, according to Hincks, to the fa- 
mily Coryniade, in which it represents a new genus and species 
—Clavatella prolifera. 
* A. de Quatrefages, Mém. sur l’Eleuthérie dichotome, nouveau genre 
de Rayonné, voisin des Hydres. Annales des Sci. Nat. 2 sér. tome xviii. 
. 270. 
r + Translated by W. S. Dallas, F.L.S., from Wiegmann’s Archiv, 1861, 
57 
ft Van Beneden, Bull. Acad. Brux. 1844, tome ii. p. 305; Dujardin, 
Ann. Sci. Nat. 1843, 2 sér. tome xx. p. 370, and 1845, 3 sér. tome iv, 
p. 257. i 
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