274 BRITISH FOSSIL CORALS. 



Found at Dudley ; at Gleedon Hill and Wenlock (Murchison) ; in Groningue, and in 

 Gothland. 



Specimens in the Collections of Mr. Fletcher, of Mr. Bowerbank, of the Geological 

 Society, of the Paris Museum, &c. 



2. Syringopora fascicularis. Tab. LXV, figs. 1, la, Id, \c. 



Tubipora fascicularis, Linne, Syst. Nat., edit. 12, p. 1271, 1767. 



— — Othon Fabricius, Fauna Groenl., p. 429, 1788. 



Syringopora filiformis, Goldfuss, Petref. Germ., vol. i, p. 113, tab. xxxviii, fig. 16, 1829. 



— — Morren, Descr. Cor. Belg., p. 70, 1832. 

 Aulopora serpens, Be Blainville, Man. d'Actin., pi. lxxxi, fig. I, 1834. 

 Syringopora filiformis, Milne Edwards, in Lamarck, Hist, des Anim. sans Vert., 2d edit. 



vol. ii, p. 328, 183G. 



— — Lonsdale, in Murchison, Silur. Syst., p. 685, pi. xv bis, fig. 12, 



1839. 

 Aulopora tub^eformis, Ibid., p. 676, pi. xv, fig. 8 ; and, perhaps, also Aulopora serpens, 



Ibid., p. 675, pi. xv, fig. 6. 

 Harmodites filiformis, anglica, and irregularis, B'Orbigny, Prodr. dePaleont., vol. i, 



pp. 50, 51, 1850. 

 Syringopora fascicularis, Milne Edwards and Jules Haime, Pol. Foss. des Terr. Palseoz. 



(Arch, du Mus„ vol. v), p. 293, 1851. 



Corattum, when very young, rampant, and presenting short prominent calicular tubes, so 

 as to resemble very closely Aulopora ; but by the progress of age these calicular tubes 

 become very tall, and multiply by lateral gemmation, so as to form a fasciculated, 

 cespitose mass, in which the corallites are rather closely set, being placed at a distance 

 equal to once or twice their diameter, which is itself about one third of a line. Walls very 

 thick, and covered with a strong epitheca. Corallites but slightly geniculated, geminating 

 frequently, and united by only few large connecting tubes. 



Found at Dudley, Donning Wood, Benthall Edge, Gleedon Hill. Sir Roderick 

 Murchison has found it in the Wenlock limestone at Eastnor Park, Ledbury, Prescoed 

 Common, Usk, Aston Ingham near Newent, and in the Ludlow rocks at Ristley Wood, 

 near Newent. 



It is also met with in Gothland and Groningue. 



This species is remarkable by its corallites being very slender and straight, or slightly 

 geniculated, and by the large diameter of the connecting tubes. It much resembles 

 S. exilis} in which the corallites are, however, more flexuous and more closely set. 



The resemblance which the young specimens of this species bear to Aulopora is so 

 great, that many authors have referred them to that generical division. But in different 



1 Milne Edwards and Jules Haime, Pol. Foss. des Terr. Palasoz., p. 295. 



