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BULLETIN OK THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



Halecium beani (Johnston). Fig. 53. 

 I Tfniii htaui Johnston, British Zoophytes, p. rjo. ) 



Colony 2 to 5 inches high, branching in a dendritic manner, more delicate than //. 

 ii; stem fascicled, branches slender,, the internodes divided by slightly oblique nodes. 

 Hydrophores much as; in If. hnlecixum. 



Gonowme. Female gonaiigia mitten-shaped, with the aperture lateral, representing the cut-off 

 thumb of the mitten. Male gonangia oblong-ovate. 



Dixti'iliiitiuii. Found growing mi bivalve shells at Woods IJule. 



A. 



r>3. Jfalrcium beani (Johnston). 



54. Halecium gracUr Verrill. 

 A. Hydrophores (enlarged) . 



Halecium gracile Verrill. Fig. 54. 

 ( Invertebrated Animals of Vineyard Sound, p. 729.) 



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Trophogome. Colony profusely branched; stem fascicled; branches ascending, slender, picnately 

 arranged, with slender internodes separated by oblique nodes. Hydrophores much as in II. hakdnum. 



Oonosome. Female gonangia much as in II. linlcriiiiiin, but with the end emarginate. Male 

 gonangia oblong-ovate. 



Dittribution. Buzzard's Bay; Vineyard Sound; near New Haven, on floating timber (Verrill). 



Professor Verrill has kindly sent me a type specimen from which the. figures were drawn. 

 Although hard to differentiate succinctly from H. lialccinum, it has a very distinct faciea and mode o 

 growth. 



