&9° 



WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 102. Pennatula. 



Inhabits the Indian Ocean', 2 feet long, white, beneath horny, the 

 rays mixed, fulvous and white : Jtem 5 or 6 inches long, foft, 

 vermicular and 4 or 5 times as long as the midrib: bone white 

 and very brittle. 



Grandis. Pen-fhaped, linear-lanceolate, with a fmooth round flerri 

 and jagged toothed ramifications. 

 Pall. Zooph. p. 366. «. 213. Rump/, Muj. p. 43, 44. n. 2, 

 Inhabits the Indian Ocean', a foot long, greenifh-grey, mines with 

 a cinereous light in the dark, and fometimes flings the hand 

 if it be touched : bone brittle, tapering both ways : ramifica- 

 tions imbricate. 





Argenlea. 



Pen-fhaped, lanceolate, with a fmooth round flem and very 

 clofe-fet imbricate ftriate ramifications. 



Shaw Natur. Mi/cell. tab. 1 24. 



Solander and Elks Coratl. p. £6, n, 9. tab, S,fig. I — 3. 



Inhabits the Indian Ocean; about a foot long, rich iilvery white 

 elegantly ftriate along the ramifications with lines of black: 

 like moil of its tribe it is luminous in the dark. 



Encrinus. Stem quadrangular, taper, very long, bony, covered with a 

 callous membrane, with an umbellate clufter of po- 

 lypes from the top. 



Elhs Coral/, p. 96. tab. 37. Phil. Tranf. 48. p. 305. /. 1 2. 



A£l % Pctrcp. 1766. p. 425. tab. 1 1. fig. 7. 



Inhabit" the Greenland feas; above 6 feet long, and when taken 

 frefh from the fea appears like a nofegay of yellow flowers: 

 upper-part or umbel compofed of 20 — 30 cylindrical polypes, 

 each with 8 claws at the tip and feated on a long pedicle. 



Cynomorium Cylindrical, flefhy, fomewhat clavate, bearing polypes oa 

 the whole upper furface. 



Shaw Natur. Mi/cell. tab. 170. 



Ellis Cat. Angl. tab. 21. jig. 3 — 5. 



Pall. Mi jell. Zool. tab. 13. fig. 1—4. 



Inhabits the Mediterranean -, reddifh, about 4 inches long, of 

 granulated appearance and covered on the thicker part with 

 valvular tubercles, through the orifices of which the polypes 

 protrude themfelves : bone flightly hollow or channelled on 

 one fide. 



Remjor/nis.- Stem round, vermicular, fupporting a kidney-fhaped leaf- 

 like head producing polypes on one furface. 

 Shaw Natur. Mi/cell. tab. 139. 

 Ellis PhiloJ. TranjaSli 53. tab. 19. fig. 6 — 10, 



Inhabits 



