84 ON SOME NEW AUSTRALIAN POLYZOA. 
vesiculis ex unoquoque geniculo sic dispositis, ut syringam Panis 
referent, Fu ne ag hae rie cuscute instar un- 
plexis. Nit Coralline. This extremely small climbing coralline 
arises from very min tubes by whic it adheres to fucuses and 
other marine~bodies, and is sposed from its jointed shape 
that it climbs up an nd runs over other corallines and fucuses as 
dodder does over other plants. The vesicles have the appearance 
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om Mr. ce in 
The small vesicles closely-jointed together in little spe eck-like 
gures among the irregular capillary branches gives us some idea 
of that form.” I may add that the Australian. species does not, 
as far as I am aware, climb over sea-weed as above described. 
er ewe SPIRALIS. sp. Noy. 
twenty to © twenty fot, aepheod ‘spell round ithe axis of the 
times as long as 
provi vided at the mouth with two Siveereni hallo spines half as 
long as the cell. 
ommon at various places on the southern coast of Australia 
inguishes 
scope it seems at first like a series of little ate one pace 
_ one within another, and surrounded with spines. It is not easy 
specie: Colour, dark 
It is to beremarked that aidan of the above species polarises, 
whereas the caleareous polyzoa all show well defined peculiarities 
of strnetinel under the polariscope. It would be an interesting 
inquiry to determine the nature of the substance which we call 
horny in these organisms. 
