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ZOOPHYTES. 
pulsive power of the Hydra would thus seem to exist in its tentacula, and 
not in its body, 
H.fusca, Linn. 
East of Ireland.* 
H. verrucosa , Temp. 
North of Ireland, Mr. Templeton. 
Supposed identical with H. fusca. 
ORDER AS TEROID A. 
Genus Virgularia. 
V. mirabilis , Lam. 
Still to be had by dredging about Bangor, Belfast Bay, W. T. 
April 3, 1848. — A few fine specimens reaching to 7 inches in length, 
dredged from 5 fathoms in Belfast Bay, by Edm. Getty, Esq., and 
brought me.f 
Genus Gorgonia. 
G. anceps , Pall. 
Stated by Ellis as found on Irish coast. 
G. verrucosa , Linn., Johnst. Brit. Zooph. 
The first Gorgonia of any species which I have seen from the coast of 
Ireland, was a portion of G. verrucosa sent to me by Dr. Ball. The 
specimen was procured at the island of Lambay, off the Dublin coast, and 
taken to Mr. Warren by the man who found it, on account of the size (18 
inches from base to extremity of branches), he having never seen any so 
large before.^ West of Ireland, It. Ball. 
Genus Alcyonium. 
A. digitatum , Linn. 
Common on the coasts of Down and Antrim. 
Unattractive as this species is when dead, it is a highly beautiful object 
in a living state when the polypes freely display themselves. W. T. 
Sept. 27, 1847, Mr. Hyndman dredged from 20 fathoms at entrance to Bel- 
* Plentiful in the lower pond of the Belfast Botanic Garden. — Ed. 
f Twenty-four specimens, some of them above 8 inches in length, were ob- 
tained in our presence at one haul of the dredge off Bock-port, Belfast Bay, 
June 9th, 1855. — Ed. 
J This has been inadvertently called Gorgonia flabellum in the published list 
of donations to the Dublin University Museum, Dec., 1848, p. 8. A specimen 
of G. flabellum , with the root attached, was brought up in a trawl-net from 8 to 
10 fathoms depth off Bangor, Belfast Bay, last summer, by Mr. Hyndman, who 
judiciously considered it a foreign specimen. That it had for some time been 
a denizen of our seas was, however, evident from the native productions which 
were attached, such as Crisia eburnea, Cellularia ciliata, Grantia compressa 
and G. ciliata , Serpula triquetra, with small portions of Confervce and other 
native Algae. This Gorgonia was 14 inches in height and the same in breadth. 
