208 WORMS. ZOOPHYTA. 74. Spongia* 



Gartn. Pall. spic. Zool. i6. p. 39. tab. 4. /. 6. 



On the Cornish coasts, whitish, with a central funnel-form., 

 cavity, and globular. eggs. 



065. A. asddioides. Grustaeeous, coriaceous, /with scat- 

 tered tubercles, each with 2 slightly toothed 

 mouths. 



Gairt. Pail. fpic. Zool. 10. ^.40. n. 3. t. 4./. 7. 



Adhering to the Fucus palmatus j pale reddish or faffron-colour» , 

 each of the tubercles perforated with a double minute fear let 

 '■ orifice. . 



74. SPONGIA.; Spwge* 

 066- SprcaMeUata* >-. Reticulate, swollen and furnished, 

 with protuberant apertures at the junctures. 



Sowerby Brit. Mescellany x.p. 131. tab. 60. 



Yellowish-brown, cancelled, with, reticulate horny fibres. 



667. Sp. curonata. ... Minute, consisting of a single rough 

 tube crowned at top with a ray of spines. 



Soland. and Ellis Zoophi p. 190. n. 13. tab, 58./. 8. 9. 



Pale yellow, with a bright pearl-colour crown, hollow and open 

 at top, and when magnified appears as if covered with fmall rising 

 points. 



668, Sp. oculata. Porous, . soft, much branched; the 

 branches a little compressed, erect, and often uni- 

 ting together. 



Ellis Coral, p. 80. tab. 32,/. F. f. 



Yellowish, with very tine tender tranfparent ramifications which 

 feqnently inosculate, and are covered with minute pores : from 5 

 to 10 inches high. 



069* Sp.iomenfowi.- Porous, irregularly formed, brittle, 

 soft, downy, composed of minute spiculae crossing 

 each other. 



Ellis Coral, p. 80. tab. 16./. d. d 1. D. 1. 



When fresh of a bright orange colour and full of gelatinous 

 flesh, when dry whitish and light, and if broken refembles the 

 crumb of bread ; if rubbed on the hand it stings and raifes blisters 

 like Cowhage. ; 



670. Sp. compacts. Tubular, branched, compact, brittle, 

 composed of minute spiculas crossing each other. 



Sowerby Brit. Miscell. p. 85. tab. 42. 



Resembles the last, but is of a greyifh cast, more branched; 

 with diftinct prominent tubes, each ending in an opening. 



67 1 . Sp. pulchella . Smooth, soft to the touch, generally 

 compressed and broad, composed of very fine reticu- 

 lation*. 



Somerbv British Miscellany p. 87. tab. 43. 



Sponge very irregular in shape, sometimes rather fan-shaped r 

 sometimes palmate or digitate, pale brown, yellowish or reddish 

 brown, without visible pores or tubes. , 



672. Sp. stuposa. Soft like tow, covered with fine poin- 

 ted hairs, with cylindrical branches. 



Philosoph. Transact. 55. p. 288. tab. iq. /. C. . 

 About 3 inches high, of a pale yellow colour. 



673. Sp. cristata. Flat, erect, soft, with rows of small 

 rather projecting pores along the top. 



Philos. Transact. 55. p. 288. tab. x\.f. G. 





