VERMIOLOGY. 



PLATE CLVL 



SPONGIA TUBULOSA 

 TUBULAR SPONGE 



Zoophytes. 



generic character. 



Animal fixed, flexile, torpid, of various forms, composed 

 either of reticulate fibres, or masses of small spines interwoven 

 together and cloathed with gelatinous flesh, which is full of small 

 mouths on its surface, by which it absorbs and rejects water. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



Tubular, branched tough, the tubes produced from one side of 

 the stem, erect and becoming slender at the tops. 



Spongia Tubulosa: tubulosa ramosa tenax, tubulis secundis 

 arrectis, apicibus attenuatis. Ellis and Soland, 

 Zooph. p. 189. 



