A. E. Verrill— Marine Fauna off New England Coast. 407 
high, the two ory together, 40" across, each one se 
20™" broad. In one instance the base of a good- sized cu 
been broken off, vleie about 6™ in diameter; from the a te 
and ragged ends of the septa thus exposed three buds have 
started out, each 3 to 4™ broad, with 24 to 36 septs: the old 
ealicle appears to have been unaffected. In another instance a 
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the interior of the calicle died, but was not broken, but from 
the other half a large bud arose, nearly filling the old calicle 
by its new growth, and soon becoming larger than before the 
injury, so that on one side the e cup is nearly regular and the 
costee continues to the base, while on the other ‘side the edge 
of the old calicle, with the old septa in ae epee in high 
relief, at about mid- -height of the cup; in this case we have,.as 
it were dines. generations shown in one Ep aaiivarr: this exam- 
ple is 45mm high, the calicle 25" broad. One of the most re- 
markable examples is a large cup, 50™" high and 28™" broad, 
in which the inner margin and distal portion of the septa are 
discolored, indicating that the soft parts within the edge of the 
calicle, and probably t the tentacles, disk and stomach had been 
destroy ed by access of mud, or some other accident, while the 
parts Seed within thes deep cup, or at least the membranes 
there covering the walls and septa, remained alive; from the 
edges and surfaces of the septa over thirty small buds have 
started out, varying in size and degree of soldpsel aire tio 
. greater number form a partial circle, 10 to 12™ the 
gin, but others are scattered over the more sear ars of 1 the 
cup, even to very near its base, the columella being nearly 
absent; the larger of these buds are about 5™ in dia meter, 
but some are not more than 2™™, and many are just beginning 
to appear, and have slight walls and septa only on one side 
In all cases the still living edges of the old septa serve as 
some of the septa of the new gr rowth 
A uumber of large specimens were dredged, off Chesapeake 
He in 57 fathoms (station 899) by Lieut. Z. L. Tanner, on oe 
“ Fisl ay Oct., 1880. It was bina by our apie 
the u Fish Hawk,” off Martha’s Vineyard, in 100 130 
fathoms (stations "940, 949 and 1040), in 1881. It was more 
common and seein at station 940, in 130 fathoms. Off 
Florida,—Pour 
In iooukian: o "Flabellum Goodei (p. 313), I have mentioned 
that it also has this same mode of budding from the inner sur- 
face of the fragments. Some of these phenomena have been 
noticed in other deep- = corals, though not explained in the 
same way. Probably this will, ‘here reafter, be foun b 
common mode of increase in the case of various fragile cup- 
