Graxulata^ 



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of a pale colour, fpotted with red^ which, when {pread, 

 appear difpofed in circles. 



A Sabella much refembling the Penicillus, and the 

 animal an Amphitrite, of very fimilar make and colour, 

 but differing fomewhat in the formation of the tentacula, 

 occurred to us on the coaft of Devonjhire ; whether it is 

 a mere variety, or diftinft, we are not fufficiently au- 

 thorifcd to determine, having only feen one fpecimen, 

 and that in a languid ftate when examined. 



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In this the fibres of the tentacula are jointed, or knot- 

 ted, and befides the ciliated fides as in the other; they 

 were verticillated at the joints, like thofe plants of the 

 Cryptogamia clafs called Equifctum or Horfc-tail : thefe 

 joints arc at regular diftances. 



The tube was not near fo long as ufual in the Penicil- 

 lus and was partly compofed of coarfer materials, par- 

 ticularly broken fi^.ells: it had been attached to fomr. 

 other body near the fmaller extremity. 



Sabella granulata. Lin. Syfl. p. 126S. 



Martini Conch, i. t. iv, f. 27. &2&? 



PaJhs Mifc Zool. t. 9. f. 3. Sz 2 ? 



Pidt. Cat. Dorfet. p. 53. 

 Sabella tubifonnis. Br. Zooh t. 92. f. 163. 

 Nereis concbilcga. /(/. No. 34. 



Sabellj 



