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CALLIGORGIADJS. 



drical polypiferous cells placed alternately on each side of the stem. 

 Lateral groove indistinct. 



Scirpearia, Cuvier, 1817 ; Schweigger, Beob. 1819, 1. 10. f. 13. 



Scirpearia, 1, Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 481. 



Funiculina, sp., Lamk. 1816. 



Gorgonia, sp. ?, Pallas, Zooph. p. 370; Blainv. Man. d'Act. p. 515. 



Pennatula, sp., Pallas, Elench. Zool. 



Eunicea, sp., i&hrenb. ? 



Eunicea **, Lamx. Polyp. Flex. p. 439. 



135. Scirpearia mirabilis. B.M. 



Pennatula mirabilis, Pallas, Zooph. p. 371; Linn. Mus. Reg. t. 19. 



f. 4 (?), Mus. Adolph. Frid. xix. p. 4 (cop. Phil. Trans, liii. t. 20. 



f. 17) ; Lamx. Enc. Meth. p. 423. 

 Funiculina cylindrica, Lamk. Hist. ii. p. 423, ed. 2. iii. p. 640 (not 



synonym). 

 Scirpearia mirabilis, Cuvier, R. A. ed. 2. iii. p. 319 ; Schweigger, Beob. 



t. 2. f. 18 (Lamk. spec.) ; Ehrenb. Cor all. r. M. p. 64 ; Schweigger, 



Beob. t. 2. f. 1 (from Lamarck's specimen, copied Blainv. Man. d'Act. 



t. 90. f. 4) ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 481. 

 Pavonaria scirpea, Blainv. (see Ehrenb.). 

 Eunicea, sp. ?, Ehrenb. ; Lamx. Polyp. Flex. p. 434. 

 Gorgonia, sp., Blainv. Man. d'Act. p. 515. 



Hob. St. Yincent, West Indies (Mus. Berlin, B.M.). 



Pallas observes, "Descripsi hanc speciem ex abrupto utrinque 

 semipedalem tamen longitudinem sequante exemplari ad Portum 

 pulchrum Americes capto et Asterice singnlari speciei intricate." 



"Annon ad Gorgonias potius quam Pennatulas referenda, sed am- 

 bigo donee integram viderim quse utrinque attenuatam liberamque 

 stirpem exhibeat." Zooph. p, 370. 



Linnaeus figures the coral as free, and furnished with polypiferous 

 cells the whole of its length, and with attenuated ends. Schweigger 

 figures the coral as free, with a thicker naked turned-up base, like 

 Pennatula, with which he arranges it ; but I am informed that in 

 the Berlin Museum the specimen is attached to a rock by an ex- 

 panded base. 



Schweigger, in his ' Beobachtungen ' (t. 2. f. 13), figured the spe- 

 cimen described by Lamarck. 



136. Scirpearia funiculina. 



Coral simple, flexible (free); cells two-rowed on each edge, small, 

 chiefly adpressed near the tip; mouth small, stellate; bark thin, 

 white ; axis yellowish. 



Juncella funiculina, Duchass. fy Michel. Cor all. Antilles, Suppl. p. 116, 

 t. 5. f. 7. 



Hob. Guadaloupe. 



" Like the next, but cells rudimentary, small." Duchassaing. 



137. Scirpearia barbadensis. 

 Coral simple, filiform ; caudal base dilated ; cells elongate, clavate 



