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SUBORDER II. ALCYONARIA. 
Appendix . — Ehrenbergf describes from preserved specimens the following 
species of “Lobularia.” — Lobularia rubiformis (A. rubiforme, Pallas). 
— Lobularia coriacea (A. coriaceum, jG6fpcr.).— Lobularia arborea (A. 
arborium, Esper.). 
Subfamily HI. — SPOGGODIN^. 
Membranaceous and internally spatiously cellular ; polyps not 
retractile. 
Genus SPOGGODIA.-^Lesson. 
Eamose Alcyonidae, internally very open cellular; polyps 
minute, not retractile, in clusters wbich are armed with calcare- 
ous spicula. 
1. Spoggodia celosia. — White, stem short and stout, subdividing into 
several branches ; the polypiferous ramuscules crimson. 
One of the Moluccas, Bay of Cajeli, near New Guinea. — Lesson. 
Family III.— CORNULARID^E. 
Coralligenous Alcyonaria ; the coralla corneous, tubular. 
Genus COENULAEIA.— Lamarck. 
Non-acrogenous Cornularidae, producing corneous tubular co- 
ralla, and budding by means of creeping filiform shoots. 
Cornularia rugosa {Lamarck ). — Polyps pale yellowish ; tentacles promi- 
nently fringed with papillae, which are arranged in a single series ; tubes 2 to 
4 lines long, subclavate, rugose. 
Mediterranean Sea. 
