G. SPONGIA. 
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Var. B. Branches upright, rather compressed, and 
incrusted. 
Australasia. 
OCULATE. 
136. Spongia oculata. Branching, upright, tough, 
and cylindrical ; branches obtuse ; oscules small, and 
almost double. 
European Ocean. 
SAUSAGE-SHAPED. 
137. Spongia botellifera. Stem short and narrow, 
dividing into upright branches, irregularly tubercled, 
jagged, blistered, and resembling small ill-shapen 
sausages ; surface osculated. 
South seas. 
PALMATED. 
138. Spongia palmata. Stem short, thick, com- 
pressed, and incrusted ; ramifications palmated, flat, 
with bare and wide digitations, which are lobed, 
forked, and sometimes three-forked at their summits ; 
scattered oscules. 
Var. B. Branches longer, and dilated towards the 
summit, with the extremities forked and pointed. 
The first, in the seas of Europe and India ; the 
second, in the seas of Australasia. 
WOOLLY. 
139. Spongia lanuginosa . Branching, dichotomous, 
rather compressed at the ramifications ; branches cy- 
lindrical, slender, and upright ; fibres bare, very fine, 
interlaced, and woolly. 
TYPHINE. 
140. Spongia typhyna . Branching and soft ; 
