OF THE 



{ UNIVERSITY i 



CATALOGUE 



OF 



LITHOPHYTES OR STONY CORALS. 



Class POLYPES OR CORALLIARIA. 



Order I. ZOOPHYTARIA. 



Suborder II. RUPICOL^J. 



Coral social, tree-like or expanded, fixed by an expanded 

 base, supported by more or less abundant, fusiform, calcareous 

 spicules. The mass of polypes or corals often supported by 

 a central calcareous or horny tree-like axis with an ex- 

 panded base. Living attached by the base of the coral and 

 axis to rocks &c. on the sea-shore. 



Polypiers corticiferes, Lamk. A. s. V. ii. p. 288. 

 Polypes corticaux, Cuvier, R. A. 1817, iv. p. 78. 

 Corallea, Blainv. D. S. N. Ixx. p. ; Man. cCAct. p. 501. 

 Gorgoniadae, Johnston, B. Z. p. 182 ; Gray, List of Brit. An. in B. M. 



i. p. 55. 



Gorgonidae, Dana, Zooph. p. 637. n. 181. 

 Ceratocorallina, Ehrenb. Corall r. M. 1834, p. 142. 

 Coralliadse, Gray, Syn. B. M. 1840, p. 134. 

 Gorgonidae, MUne-Edw. $ Haime, Corall. i. p. 134 j Kolliker, Ic. Hist. 



p. 135. 



I. Polypes social, growing closely side by side, forming a fleshy crust, the 

 young polypes being developed from the ends of the branches, or in the 

 centre of the disk. 



Section I. Axifera. 



Social polypes, supported by a central horny or calcareous axis, 

 and attached to marine bodies by the expanded base of the axis, 

 and the mass of polypes. 



B 



