240 CATALOGUE OF THE ZOOPHYTES OF 
The specimens from which Professor Stimpson described, how- 
ever, were of very humble growth compared with individuals got 
on this coast. Fine examples, nearly four inches in height and 
much branched, have occurred to me from the deep-water boats. 
My lamented friend, Mr. Barlee, also met with it in Shetland. 
As no gonophores have yet been discovered in this species, its 
mode of reproduction still remains in obscurity. 
OrpER ASTEROIDA, Johnston. 
Famity. PENNATULIDA, Fleming. 
20. VIRGULARIA, Lamarck. 
V. Curistiu, Koren and Danielssen. © 
Kor. and Dan. in Mag. f. Naturv., 1847, p. 269, f. 
3. Idem in Fauna Litt. Norv., 2nd Pt., p. 91, t. xii. 
f. 7—12. Sars in Fauna Litt. Norv., 2nd Pt.,7. 71. 
A notice of the occurrence of this fine species on our coast was 
inserted in the present volume, p. 60, and some account of it was. 
there given. As, however, our specimens differ in some respects 
from the description given by Messrs. Koren and Danielssen in 
the “ Fauna Littoralis Norvegie,” I have thought it necessary 
to describe the British form more at length, premising that as 
the specimens were obtained from the fishermen in a dead state, 
the account of them must necessarily be somewhat imperfect. 
Polypary, about 17 inches long, very slender, linear, with 
the upper part curved into an arch. The lower and 
sterile portion of the stem, occupying from a fourth to a 
fifth part of the entire length, is slender and cylindrical 
above, and scarcely more than one tenth of an inch in 
diameter (when dry); about three quarters down, how- 
ever, it swells abruptly to three times that breadth, and is 
a little flattened, tapering from thence into an obtuse 
recurved point. About three fourths of the upper portion 
of the polypary is covered with rather small sessile polype- 
cells, which are arranged in two very oblique rows in 
front, sloping towards the centre. At first these rows 
have a central space between them, but higher up they 
