56. «ON THE ANATOMY OF DISTICHOPORA. 
irregularly scattered gemmation. Mr. Saville-Kent then ion ef 
a new species, which he names Distichopora rosea. See 
Zool. Soc. 1871, loc. ett. 
The wart-like clusters so frequently referred to are made ons 
the features for classifying Stylasters. M.-Edwards says of that 
genus that the branches have in various places a of vesicular 
tubercles. S. gracilis, roseus, gemmascens and granulosus all have — 
m. Hee.’ 
structure of the Stylasteride, for the following. 
tales, in his Deep Sea Corals (Illustrated Catalogue 
Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard Colleg we 4, is, 
p. 33), writes as follows :—“ Professor Verrill first rec ogn nized 
other species ‘of reg stl were described from. te 
Kilantic West Indies by Prof. Verrill and Pourtales, ae 
gather from Moseley (op. a thus :—D. nitida, Verrill B Bull. Mus 
Co: ool, Cambri +p . cervina, Pourtales Y@P 
Sea Corals, P 39, note, ill Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard, No. Ke 
pl. 7, fig. 11, St. Thomas, Danish, West Indies. \ D: fei 
- Sea Corals, p. é 
and Key West, 100 to 262 fathoms. D. suicata, Pourtales’ i 
Sea Corals, p. 38, pl 4, fig. 14, pl. 7, fig. 7 off Havanah, 210 
os oe D. ba em iene Cat. Mus 
ese refer 
ences or consulting the essays “of Count ag potion ag oo i hat “a 
coral. The soft parts of any of the Stylasteride we re not 
known to any observer except Sars}, who was enabled to see j 
55; kk e if 
Philosoph. Trans., Pt. ii, p. 425. 
ee + Butron til. Kundskaben om Dyreliret vore Havbanker, £° 
Videnskabs, Selskabet i Christiana, 1872, p. ne (res Fide Moseley, /0¢. 
