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Genus ANGUINELLA, Van Beneden. 



Dr. from anguis, a snake; named from its supposed affinity with the 

 genus Anguinaria. 



AMirisELL.v Van Boneden, Rech. sur les Bryoz. (1844): Busk. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. ZOARIUM consisting of an erect 

 common stem, giving off branches at intervals, on which the 

 cells are borne ; the ectocyst incrusted by earthy matter, 

 opaque. ZO<ECIA cylindrical. POLYPIDES without a giz- 

 zard. 



ANGUINELLA PALMATA, Van Benedeu. 



Plate LXXVH. figs. 5, 5 a; and Woodcut, fig. 30. 



ANGUINELLA PALMATA, Van Beneden, Recherches, &c. (McSin. Bruxelles, 

 xviii.), 58, pi. Tii. figs. 18-24 : Busk, Q. J. Micr. Sc. iv. 

 (1856), 95, pi. vi. figs. 1, 2. 



Zoarium attached by the base, dendroid, thickly branched ; 

 the branches clothing the stem from the base to the 

 summit, more or less palmate, of an earthy-brown 

 colour. Zocecia cylindrical, irregularly distributed on 

 the branches, with which they are continuous below, 

 slightly bent inwards. 



Polypides with 10 short tentacles, clothed with remark- 

 ably long cilia. 



Height from 3 or 4 to 6 or 8 inches. 



VAN BENEDEN likens this curious species to a fir-tree 

 clothed with branches to its very base. Mr. Busk gives 

 a better idea of it in saying that it " resembles a small 

 Fucus covered with mud." 



