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last summer. There may be other characters, at present unknown, 
sufficient to separate Danella from Aleyonium, but the mode of 
growth certainly is not. 
Lobularia Verrillii Gray, named from a specimen that I regard- 
ed as too imperfect to describe, and of which only the most obvious 
characters were mentioned incidentally, is certainly not a Lobula- 
a, 
Areocella is 
um D 
F Do oa 2 ? 
shaped spicula, which are similar in the two species, but blunter, 
and stouter i former; in S. glaucum *250™™ to 325 long, 
broad. The surface is granulous and covered with very small, 
short, roughly-warted, irregular spicula, much alike in the two 
ecies 
; Bellonella ? capitata Gray. For this he quotes “ Lobularia cap- 
We find no such name in 
ence is to “t. 1, fig. 22” instead of PI. 1, fig. 1 and 2. ; 
This name is proposed for certain species sep- 
arated from Xenia (type, X. wmbellata). The principal character 
Appears to be “surface coriaceous, with imbedded fusiform, spined 
spicula.” To this genus he refers X. subviridis, X. florida, as 
elongata, and X. rosea, the last a name for Dana’s species, figured 
a8 _X. cerulea. The X. flori be ne 
Separate them generically from X. wmbellata. So fa _as th of 
Species are siasettet the characters do not agree with those given 
