#56 WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 97. Spongia. 



m jffeidio~ Cruftaceous, coriaceous, with fcattered tubercles each with 

 ide$. 2 (lightly toothed mouths. 



Getrt 'all. Spicil Zcol. 10 p. 40. n. 3. /. 4. f. 7. 

 Inhabits the Cornijh Coast, adhering to the Fucus palmatus ; pale 

 reddifh or faffron colour; each of the tubercles perforated 

 with a double minute fcarleC orifice. 



Swicum. With numerous cylindrical ftems of a foft fleftiy fubftance, 

 each with a itellate orifice at the tip. 

 Pbipfs journ p. 199 tab. I 3 tig. 3 

 Inhabits the Ihore* at Spitzburg 5 very like A mammillofum. 



VtrmUultre Green, branched, with obtufe cylindrical fafligiatc branches. 

 Cainlix. pol. mar 3 p. 264 tat>. ()./%' '6. 

 Inhabits the iilands round Naples, affixed to rocks. 



Stel/atum. With 2 ftellate terminal mouths. 



Bcmme AS. Vhjf 3. />. 306./^. 5. A, B. 



Inhabits- — 1 — —funnel-form, included in a pellucid fack or {kin : 

 probably not of this genus. 



Cornicula- With 4 ftellate mouths furrounding the middle tubercle, and 

 turn. 4 erect terminal fmall horns. 



Bomme Act. Vlijf 3 /. 307 /%.6, 

 Inhabits the Belgic fcaa: probacy not of this genus. 



97. SPONGIA. Animal fixed, ftexile, torpid, 

 of various forms, com poled either of re- 

 ticulate fibres or maiies of fmall fpines 

 interwoven together, and clothed with a 

 gelatinous fleih full of fmall mouths on 

 its furface, by which it abforbs and re- 

 jects water. Sponge. 



yentila- Fan-fhaped, regular, foft, with reticulate woody veins 

 brum. covered with p;>res like a honey-comb. 



Phikf Iran fad 5; ^.289 tab II H. 



Pontopp Norms. \ p 251. tab. I 3 /|. 8. 



Gunner AH. Ntdns. ^.p1\'t 3 f 1,2. t. 4. /. 3, 4. 



Seba Muf 3. tab. 95. f. 8. Rump/ Amb. 6. p. 253, tab. 89 ? 



Inhdb.ts the Norway and American? Teas; about 6 inches high 

 and 5 broad . exa&ly reiembies a fmall Gorgo ia flabellum in 

 its Ihape and ramifications, except that the pores are angular 



and the fubflance is (pongy. 



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