56 BRITISH FOSSIL CORALS. 



late been considered by M. Alcide d'Orbigny as deserving to be elevated to the rank of a 

 genus, and has been named by that author Discopsammia ;' but M. d'Orbigny has not 

 pointed out any new characters in addition to those on which this separation was primitively 

 established in our Monograph, and consequently we see no reason for altering the 

 classification previously adopted. 



Stephanophyttia Bowerbankii is found in the lower chalk near Dover, and does not 

 appear to differ from some corals which one of us 2 has lately met with in a bed of chlorited 

 chalk at Orcher, near le Havre. The specimens here described belong to the collections of 

 Mr. Bowerbank, Mr. D. Sharpe, and the Geological Society. 



1 Note sur les Polypiers Fossiles, p. 10, 184!). 

 - M. Jules Haime. 



