162 BRITISH FOSSIL CORALS. 



Corallites elongated, flexuous, rather widely separated from each other, and subgenicu- 

 lated at the origin of the connecting tubes. Epitheca delicately wrinkled transversely. 

 Connecting tubes placed at the distance of about 3 lines; diameter of the corallites \\ 

 or \\ lines. 



The British specimens which we have had an opportunity of examining were found by 

 the officers of the Geological Survey at Oswestry, Mold, and Brad well. Professor Phillips 

 has found the same species at Bolland, Kirby Lonsdale, Ash-Pell, and Mendip ; Professor 

 M'Coy mentions its existence in the Carboniferous Formation of the Isle of Man ; and 

 Col. Portlock has met with it at Kilcronaghan, Deny, and at Clogher, Tyrone. This fossil 

 is also found on the Continent, at Vise and Tournay, in Belgium ; Olne, in Limburg ; 

 Ratingen, in Prussia, and Utkinsk, in Russia. 



Syringopora ramidosa is remarkable on account of the distance between the corallites 

 and their geniculate forms, peculiarities which distinguish it from S. geniculata} a species 

 much less deserving the specific appellation given to it. 



2. Syringopora reticulata. Tab. XLVI, figs. 1, la. 



Tubipora strues, affinis, &c, Parkinson, Org. Rem., vol. ii, pi. ii, fig. 1, 1808. 

 Erismatolithus tubiporites (catenatus) (pars), William Martin, Petref. Derb., pi. xlii, 



fig. 2, 1809, but not fig. 1. 

 Syringopora reticulata, Goldfuss, Petref., vol. i, p. 76, tab. xxv, fig. 8, 1826. 

 Tubipora strues, Fleming, Brit. An., p. 529, 1828. 



_ — S, Woodward, Syn. Table of Brit. Org. Rem., p. 5, 1830. 



Harmodites radians, Bronn, Letb. Geogn., vol. i, p. 51, tab. v, fig. 7, 1835. 

 Syringopora reticulata, John Phillips, Geol. of York, vol. ii, p. 201, 1836. 



— — Milne Edwards, Ann. de la 2e Edit, de Lamarck, vol. ii, p. 328, 



1836. 



— — Portlock, Rep. on Lond., p. 337, pi. xxii, fig. 7, 1843. 



— catenata, M'Coy, Syn. Carb. Foss. of Ireland, p. 189, 1844. 

 Harmodites strues, UOrbigny, Prod, de Palseont., vol. i, p. 162, 1850. 

 Syringopora reticulata, Milne Edwards and J. Haime, Pol. Foss. des Terr. Paleeoz., 



p. 290, 1851. 



— — M'Coy, Brit. Palaeoz. Foss., p. 84, 1851. 



Corallites very long, diverging slightly, separated by a space equal to once or twice 

 their diameter, and straight or slightly flexuous. Connecting tubes thick, somewhat 

 irregularly arranged, and placed 1^ or 2 lines apart. 



Diameter of the corallites 1 line or less. 



This fossil has been found in the Carboniferous Deposits of Bristol, Lilleshall ; 

 Winster, Buxton (Martin) ; Ashfell, Derbyshire (Professor Phillips) ; Kendal, Westmoreland, 



1 Milne Edwards and Jules Haime, Polyp. Foss. des Terr. Palaeoz., tab. xx, fig. 1 ; Harmodites 

 catenatus, De Koninck, Anim. Foss. des Terr. Carbonif. de la Belgique, tab. B, fig. 4. 



