Pl. cell.aph. 2. THALASSIOPHYT. 55.Tupha, 357° 
8. minor. Smaller branches more numerous and distinct, 
spreading from a shorter pedicell. 
KXXI. 56. SCYPHA. lant Scyphe. 
Thallus shooting into tubular processes, either simple or 
compound, very porous, formed of interwoven, bent, reti- 
culated horny fibres, without any chalklike matter. 
1. Scypha coronata. Crowned scyphe. 
Lube solitary; tip crowned with radiating spines. 
Spongia coronata, Ellis Zooph. 190, 
On fuci and other marine bodies. 
Thallus above an inch long, yellowish sometimes 2 
shining; silvery white, not always crowned but covered. 
with spiculee. 
2. Scypha botryoides. Bunch-of- grapes scyphe. 
Thallus minute, ovate, tubular, in bunches covered with 
radiated spines. - 
Spongia botryoides, Ellis Zooph. 190. 
Sea-shore. 
Thallus composed of minute branches, oval like grapes... 
each open at the tip, as if tubular.—The spines are the 
asterias radiata of Walker. 
3. Scypha papillaris. ; Nipple scyphe.. 
Thallus sessile, flat, spreading with scattered tubular 
tubercles. 
Spongia papillaris, Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1, 3824. 
Rocks rarely left uncovered by the sea. 
Thallus soft, yellow; tubercles sometimes tipped with 
blue; when dry less soft, brown or gray; surface like gauze. 
8B. Sowerbeiz. Tubercles longer and more tiumerous. 
Spongia compacta, Brit. Miscell. 1, 42. 
Bottom of the sea? 
4. Scypha tubulosa. Tubular scyphe.. 
Thallus tubular, branched, tough; tubes erect, slightly 
tapering. 
Spongia tubulosa, Ellis Zooph. 188. 
Spongia fastigiata, Pallas Zooph. 392. 
Sea-shore at very low water, and bottom of the sea. 
Thallus 3 inches high and 4 or 5 wide, yellow, when dry 
pale brown or dirty white. 
