THE 



KIDNEY-SHAPED PENNATULA. 



Generic Character. 



Body in fome fpecies pinnated, in fome entire; 

 with polypes proceeding from its upper fur- 

 face, and having a naked ftem, furnifhed 

 with an internal bone. 



Specific Character, &c. 



KIDNEY - SHAPED PENNATULA with 

 worm -like ftem. 



THE KIDNEY -SHAPED PURPLE SEA- 

 PEN. 



Phil. Tranf. vol.53, t. 19. fig. 6 — 10. 

 Soland, and 'Ellis zooph. p. 65. 



This moft beautiful Pennatula is to be ranked 

 amongft thofe fpecies which recede in point of habit 

 from the major part of the genus. It confifts of an 

 expanded, kidney-lhaped, flattened body, riling from 

 a fhort worm-like ftem, and covered on the upper fur- 

 face with numerous tubular orifices, through which are 

 exferted at pleafure the tentacula or polype-formed 



limbs 



