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I am suggesting the name of torri for this species, after 
my friend Dr. W. G. Torr, to whom I am indebted for a good 
deal of material I hope to deal with in a future paper. 
ADDENDUM. 
Since writing the foregoing Dr. J. C. Verco has sent me 
his stereoscopic microscope, and with the aid of this splendid 
etse the following additional observations have been 
made :— 
like scales are, most of them, transparent and glassy ; others, 
again, are opaque and white, but still with a glass-like 
appearance. * 
Between these “wheat-grains” the strange "spear-heads 
push through and look like a cylindrical pointed spear-head 
made of porcelain, and are, I estimate, eight times the length 
of the scales : 
Later, as the ''spear-head" is pushed forward, a pale- 
a distinct branch. In one or two instances a single stalk has 
branched six times and been furnished with six ''spear 
heads." These side branches are of a considerable length. 
often several times the length of the spear-headed apex. 
. Somewhat distant rings for the whole length of the tube. In 
a few instances these striae a i rs t 
à he re absent; in others the : 
are broader and placed at greater distances, Su bs 
