1896] 



On Funiculina and Kophobelemnon. 



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„ Polyp cells . . . with eight 

 well-developed spines at their 

 opening." 



„ Calcareous corpuscles in the 

 stalk, rachis, the cells . . . ." 



eigentlichen Zooide offenbar erst 

 spåter sich bilden. Nachtråglich 

 bemerke ich noch, dass auch die 

 in den Fig. 152 und 153 darge- 

 stellten Zooide nichts anderes sind 

 als Knospen, die die Bestimmung 

 haben in Geschlechtsthiere sich 



umzubilclen 



Mit . . . unmittelbar am Kiele 

 sitzenden Polypen." 



„Polypeir von langen Kelchen 

 getragen, der en Rand in ackt 

 Spitzen auslåuft . . . ." 



„Haut des Stammes mit Kalk- 



nadeln die besonders im Stiele 



zahlreich sind." (In the detailed 



account, the calcareous spicules 



are mentioned from the stalk as 



well as the rachis and calyx). 



If we compare Danielssen and Koeen's description of the 



variety norvegicum, we shall also find the same harmony between 



the genera Funiculina and Leptoptilum. i 1 ) 



It must moreover be noticed that both in Funiculina and in 

 Leptoptilum, the polyps are entirely destitute of spicules. This is 

 strongly emphasised, as regarcls the variety norvegicum, by Daniels- 

 sen and Koren, who say: „Polypernes krop er uden kalk, heller 

 ikke findes saadan i det stærkt foldede og temmelig langstrakte 

 svælg." (There is no lime in the body of the polyps, nor is any- 

 thing of the kind to be found in the much folded, and rather long 

 oesophagus). ( 2 ) 



O) Nye Alcyonider, Gorgonider og Pennatulider tilhørende Norges Fauna, 

 pag. 29. 



( 2 ) Only the upper contractile part of the polyp is here meant. It is not 

 therefore at variance with Milnes Makshall, for when, in „On the Pennatulida 

 dredged hy H. M. S. Triton" (Transact. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, vol XXXII, p. 

 136, Pl. XXIII, fig. 22), he says of a young Funiculina quadrangularis : „In 

 the first place it will he noticed, that the calcareous spicules which in Funi- 

 culina quadrangularis are usually confined to the calyx here extend down the 

 whole length of the polyps along the lines of attachment of the septa," he means 

 the lower part of the polyp, K6lliker's „Kelche," a fact of which one may 

 easily satisfy one's seif by looking at the figure. This represents the polyps in 



