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about ^ in diameter. They are filled with a soft reddish-pink matter, and tipt with the 

 Polype, which is of a reddish colour, beautifully variegated, and adorned with two unequal 

 rows of tentacula. 

 2. T. ramosa, solitary, much branched ; branches irregularly alternate, slender, annulated 



at their insertions ; tentacula more than 20, unvariegated, in a single row Branched 



Pipe Coralline (tab. nost. x.). 

 T. ramosa, Linn.; Soland. Zooph. 32 ; Turt. Lin. iv. 666 ; Turt. Br. Faun. 210 ; Stew. 

 Elem. ii. 437; Lam. Hist. Nat. ii. 110; Bosc Vers. iii. 89; Lamour. Corall. 101; 

 Flem. Br. Anim. 552 ; Stark. Elem. ii. 441, t. 8, f. 15, an imperfect copy of Ellis's ; 

 Hogg's Stockton, 34. 

 Small ramified tubular Coralline, Ellis, Corall. 31, t. xvi. f. a and t. xvii. f. a, A. 

 Hab. On stones in deep water. 



Our figure represents a fine specimen of this coralline, which was brought up in Berwick 

 Bay, on the lines of our fishermen. It is so perfectly like a tree, in miniature, deprived of 

 its foliage, that persons, unacquainted with the nature of these Zoophytes, may be excused 

 in supposing the artist to have taken some liberty with his subject, to give it more the 

 dendroidal character, but the supposition, I can assure them, however natural, has no foun- 

 dation, as the etching, for which I am indebted to the celebrated painter, Mr. T. S. Good, 

 is very exact to nature. The coralline is the finest of those that grow on our shores, but 

 specimens of this kind are rarely found, nor, indeed, does any naturalist appear to have 

 •seen one like it. Those represented by Ellis are so vastly inferior in beauty, that, at first, 

 I was inclined to consider our's as a distinct species, but the magnified figures are alike, 

 and the polypes are similar to Ellis's. They have more than twenty filiform whitish 

 tentacula, which, when magnified, appear roughish, but not ciliated, and arranged in one 

 row round a broad oral disk. The mouth is encircled with a red-coloured band. 



I have observed a small Tubularia which invests old specimens of Murex antiquus with a 

 dense beard-like coat, and may, possibly, be a species, distinct from the above. It is only the 

 quarter of an inch in height, slender, horny, wrinkled, slightly and irregularly branched, the 

 branches without rings at their origins ; polypes white, furnished with a single series of 

 obtuse tentacula, that do not seem to exceed ten in number. In this respect, it agrees 

 with the T. ramosa, as characterised by Dr. Fleming, but differs from the specimens which 

 I have seen, and also from Ellis's figure of it, in which the tentacula are much more 

 numerous. 



7. CORYNE. 

 1 . C. glandulosa, stem irregularly branched, horny ; tentacula with globular heads. 

 C. glandulosa, Lam. Hist. Nat. ii. 62 ; Flem. Phil. Zool. ii. 616, tab. v. fig. 2 ; Flem. Br. 

 Anim. 553 ; Fleming in Edin. Phil. Journ. viii. 295 ; Encyclop. Method, tab. 69, fig. 

 15, 16. 

 Tubularia Coryna, Turt. Lin. iv. 668 ; Turt. Br. Faun. 210. ; Bosc Vers. iii. 91. 

 Hab. On stones near low water-mark in Berwick Bay. 



