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TRIBE IL— CARYOPHYLLACEA. 
Genus XI,—SARCINULA.— Lamaeck. ! 
Cespitose or fasciculate Cyatliopliyllid&e ; stems cylindrical. 
Corallum having the cells multiradiate ; internal septa simple, 
oblique upward, conical, and extending quite from the sides 
axis distinct— Plate 26, fig. 11. ^ 
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Family II.— CARYOPHYLLID^. 
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Coralligenous Caryophyllacea ; polyp-mouths long exsert, ten4|| 
tacles oblong. Coralla within not transversely septate, surfaced* 
not lamello-striate ; cells with the margin acute and thin ; la-|j- 
mellae nearly or quite entire. I? 
The genera of this family may be characterized as follows : | 
A. Polyps not exsert; calicles prominent: sometimes solitary. ' 
a. Cells with a corona of points within, at the base of the lamellae. I 
1. Ecmesus. Free; disk-shape. 
2. Cyathina. Attached ; turbinate. i 
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b. Cells not coronate within. I 
I. Zoophytes free when adult, ; 
3. Stephanophyllia. Free; disk-shape; flat below, with prominent la-'| 
mellse. | 
4. Turbinalia. Free ; turbinate, sometimes compressed, 
II. Zoophytes attached ; simple or ramose. 
5. Desmophyllum. Simple ; lamellae arrang’ed in groups or fascicles. | i; 
6. Culicia. Simple ; calicle smooth without, fragile ; lamellae inciso-den-J^ 
ticulate. 1^! 
7. Caryophyllia. Simple, or calicularly ramose, with only the tips of the]-^ 
branches alive ; lamellae nearly or quite entire. 
8. Dendrophyllia. Ramose, arborescent (each branch with an apical ' 
parent-polyp and an axial star) ; cells with the lamellae nearly entire. 
9. OcuLiNA. Cumulato-ramose, arborescent, branches without an axial star. 
III. Zoophytes attached ; glomerate. ‘ 
10. Anthophyllum. Calicular tubes united by a separable spongy base ; ; 
the exterior smooth or faintly striate ; cell with a depressed centre. 
