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Family. Vesiculaeiid^. 



"Zooecia contracted below, not closely united to the stem at the 

 base, deciduous, destitute of a membraneous area." 



Amathia, Lamouroiix. 



Zoarium consisting of a creeping tubular stem and erect filiform 

 shoots, dichotomously branched. Zocecia subtubular, in two parallel 

 rows, continuous or in distinct groups, which are placed on one or 

 both sides of the stem, or wind spirally round it. 

 A. Australis, Tenison Woods. P.R.S., N.S.W., 1877. 

 A. spiralis, Lamx. T.R.S.V., 1880. 

 A. tortUOSa, Tenison Woods. T.R.S.V., 1880. 

 A. biCOrnis, Tenison Woods. T.R.S.V., 1880. 



A. inarmata, M^G. T.R.S.V., Nov., 1886. 



Group B, Entoprocta, Nitsche. 

 Order II. PEDICELLINEA, Gervais. 



Family. Pedicellinid^. 



Polypides borne on a retractile peduncle, united in colonies by a 

 creeping stolon. 



Pedicellina, Sai^s. 



Polypides pedunculate, distributed along a creeping, ramified 

 stolon, the body separated by a diaphragm from the stem and deci- 

 duous ; tentacular crown terminal. 



P. sp. 



Queenscliff. 



Pedicellinopsis, Hincks. 



'^Polypides cup-shaped, supported on chitinous tubes with a much 

 enlarged base (consisting of an opaque white core, probably muscular, 

 enveloped in a chitinous covering) by which they are attached to an 

 erect tubular stem. Zoarium adherent by means of tubular root 

 fibres." 

 P. fruticosa, Hinchs. A.M.N. H., May, 1884. 



Port Phillip Heads, J.B.W. 



