238 BRITISH NULLIPORES : 



NULLirORA, Lamarck. 



The character is the same as that of the family, of which 

 taere is no other genus. 



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1. N. POLYMORPHA, " is in solid masses, irregularly ra- 

 mose, and tubercv luted." 



Plate XXIV. Fig 1, 2, 3. Plate XXV. Fig. 2, 3. 



Corallium album pumilum nostras, Raii Hist. i. 62 ; Syn. i. 32. 



Coralliiim pumihim album, Ellis, Corall. 76, no. 1, pi. 27, fig. c. 



Millepora polymorpha, Lm. Syst. 1285. Ellis and Soland. Zooph. 

 130. Berk. Syn. i. 211. Turt. Gmel. iv. 6.38. jTm^. Brit. Faun. 

 205. Stew. Elem. ii. 428. Mull. Zool. Dan. prod. 253. Fa- 

 brie Faun. Groenl. 433. Base, Vers, ii. 341, pi. 25, fig. 3. Ja- 

 meson in Wern. Mem. i. 560. Flem. Brit. Anim. 528. Hogg's 

 Stock. 37. Bellamy's S. Devon, 269. Hassal in Anim. Nat. 

 Hist. Nov. 1840, 174. 



Millepora calcarea. Pall. Elench. 265. 



M. polymorpha, var. rubescens, Esper, Millep. tab. 16, fig. 1 — 4 ; 

 and var. ramosa, tab. 14, fig. 1 — 3. 



M. informis, Zam. Anim. s. Vert. ii. 203. 2de edit. ii. 311. Risso, 

 L'Europ. Merid. v. 348. 



NuUipora informis, Schweig. Handb. 412. Templetonin Mag. Nat. 

 ix. 470. Blainv. Actinol. 605. 



Hab. " Common on submarine rocks, in shallow water," 

 Fleming. 



