50 ON THE ANATOMY OF DISTICHOPORA. 
the exodermal reproductive organs of Distichopora. I never hl 
until lately an opportunity of studying the animals alive, andin~ 
the meantime Mr. Moseley had ably and satisfactorily decide 
the whole question in those brilliant researches which I shall refer 
to further on. After all that he has done, I consider the observa: 
tions I have to offer here as av contribution to the ; 
stock of 
ry trifling 0 
knowledge on the —_—- Though they are or q 
there are few that will be During the long period over q 
which my observations “ities extennied, I have been enabled to — 
ce to science, will be all that 
Moseley has given to the wo rid. 
The genus Distiche 
a coral which had 
rosea, was designated by Rumphius 
pear to have known 
cea. The following i osis : 
an rupibus di » assurgentes, ramulis teretibus, obtusis, sub- 
> Pp 
specimin - r ports concatenate decurrunt. In gu 
in adusto ql vt passim crebras in superficie ine 
oo ae ade a surgunt ; que confracte ce 
latentem prodiderunt F, q fr | 
videntur. mule 
Gorcoyta 
* Hist. Nat. @ Anim, s. Vertébres, st edit., vol. ii, p. 198. 
wah bin tes to this edition, which is a'small Svo. And 
was ee Utrecht, ot lates. I bave 
adhe pale § iit of ete flowers is, I suppose, meant, though ! 
