J.D. Dana on Zoophytes. 3 
Ai of animal flowers. The latter is from a small specimen of 
ga: were its disks and tentacles of some bright shades of 
ell and the small hemisphere enlarged to a diameter of twelve 
rie 13. 
oe it would then give some idea of the domes of the coral reef, 
ich we have made allusion above. Fig. 38 ona following 
pe is another variety. Figures 15 and 16 represent a Madre- 
Fig. 16. 
pora and a Dendrophyllia, of natural size; and they bear out 
the remark that a branch is literally a spike of flowers. Figure 
17 also sustains our comparison of the Alcyonia to clumps of 
