298 MR. J. Y. Johnson's notes [June 25, 



bottom. In the only specimen of the former which I have seen, 

 the cells are not nearly so numerous as in the specimens of the 

 latter which have come under my notice. Moreover, the orifices of 

 the cells in A. hirsuta are not roofed in with spicula in the same 

 complete and regular way as is the case with the cell-orifices of this 

 species. Lastly, I have not noticed any branching at the bases of the 

 large spicula of A. hirsuta. 



The only specimen of this very curious Black Coral which has 

 fallen in my way, and which I have had the honour of presenting to 

 the British Museum, was brought to me when residing at Funchal in 

 the month of February last. It was said to have become entangled 

 in a fishing line, and to have been brought up from a considerable 

 depth near Ponta do Pargo, the south-west extremity of the island. 

 It was attached to a stone on which a small specimen of Dendro- 

 2)hyllea 7-umea, a not uncommon Madeiran coral, was seated. It has 

 a height of 6 or 7 inches, and it measures about 1 inches across. 



9. Notes on the Sea-Anemones of Madeira, with Descrip- 

 tions of New Species. By James Yate Johnson. 



In the following notes I have given an account of such Sea-Ane- 

 mones as have occurred to me after much diligent search in the 

 neighbourhood of Funchal, the capital of Madeira. The dredge 

 would doubtless bring other species to light, and possibly something 

 additional would be discovered by an examination of the shore in 

 other parts of the island. As to the nomenclature of the genera, I 

 have considered it right to follow Mr. Gosse, to whom all students 

 of this tribe of Zoophytes must feel much indebted for his pains- 

 taking book on the British species. 



A Cornularia is included ; for although not, strictly speaking, a Sea- 

 Anemone, it closely resembles one in external appearance. 



Order ALCYONARIA, M.-Edw. 



Cornularia atlantica, sp. n. 



Basal band narrow, inconspicuous, creeping irregularly, and bear- 

 ing the polypes at uncertain distances. Column of a pale flesh- 

 colour, subcylindrical, rather wider at the middle than above and 

 below ; destitute of spicula, but invested by a thin epidermis con- 

 taining particles of sand ; when retracted, forming a fleshy hemisphe- 

 rical button, one-fifteenth of an inch high ; when expanded, the co- 

 lumn has a length of about three-tenths of an inch, with a diameter 

 of one-twelfth of an inch. Eight pinnate tentacles, in one series, at 

 the margin of the shallow cup forming the disk, the pinnae of about 

 twelve pairs, ringed, as if showing a tendency to further division. 

 Tentacle-stem subulate, about one-fourth of an inch in length, the 

 bases of the tentacles broadening and coming in contact one with 

 another on each side. When the animal is fully displayed, the ten- 



