Dr. J. E. Gray on the Fleshy Aleyonoid Corah. 121 



B. The coral orust-liJce, convex, with more or less erect lobes. The 

 polypes to the edge of the crust or the base of the stem, ivith long 

 cylindrical tabular bodies ; polypes retractile. 



Fam. 3. Lobulariada?. 



Coral with a hard, crustaceous, smooth external coat. Po- 

 lypes retractile. 



* Polype-cell flat, not raised above the surface of the crust. 



1. LOBULAEIA. 



f Cored crust-like, with, a few rounded lobes or cylindrical blunt 

 branches. 



1. Lobularia digitata, Lamk. (Alcyonium digitatum, Linn. 



A. lobatum, Pallas. A. exos, Spix. A. palmo, Esper, 

 t. 9, dry. A. lacunosum, Esper, t. 14, dry. Lobular ia 

 grandijlora, Charaisso '? Halcyonium pcdmo, Ehr., yar. 

 Alcyonium cydonium, Miiller. Lobular ia conoidea } Lamk. 

 Cydonium Miilleri, Fleming.) 

 Hab. North Sea, Mediterranean. B.M. 



A. cydonium, Esper, t. 25. f. 1, 2, 3, looks like the section 

 of a dry specimen of this coral. 



2. Lobularia massa. (Alcyonium massa } Midler, Z. D. t. 81. 



f. 1, 2. Massarium massa, Blainy. Symjiodium massa. 

 Ehrenb.) 

 Hab. North Sea. 



3. Lobularia glomerata. (Alcyonium glomeratum, Johnston. 



A. rubrum and A. sanguineum, Hassall, Conch, Cornish 

 Fauna, t. 13. f. 1.) 

 Hab. Coast of Cornwall (Conch). 



4. Lobularia carnca. (Alcyonium carncum, Yerrill, Bull. 



Mus. Comp. Zool. 35. A. digitatum, Sthnpson.) 

 Hab. North Sea. 



5. Lobularia rubriformis,YA\\h. (Alcyonium ru brifbrme. Dana. 



Yerrill, Mem. Boston S. N. H. i. 4.) 

 Hab. North Sea. 



6. Lobularia Verrillii. (Alcyonium , n. s., Yerrill, Rep. 



Essex Institute, 1S65, p. 191.) 

 Hab. Sea of Okhotsk (Yerrill). 



7. Lobularia mollis. (Alcyonium mollc, Esper, 1. 18 B, in spi- 



rits. A. granulafum, Esper, t. 24, dry.) 

 Hab. , on a Fucus. B.M. 



