Fig. 12. 
FAMILY II. TUBUL ARIADNE. 
2. Coryne,* Gsertner. 
Character. — Polypes fixed , single , naked , cylindrical , or 
claviform but contractile , the head with scattered filiform smooth 
tentacula : mouth 0 ? 
1. C. squamata, body more or less clavate ; the tentacula 
shorter than the body . Geertner.-J* 
Plate II. 
Hydra squamata, Mull. Zool. Dan. prod. 230, no. 2786. Zool. Dan. tab. 
iv. fig. 1-3. Fabric. Faun. Groenl. 347 Polyporum species margine 
conchse insidentes, Bast. Opusc. Subsec. i. 44, tab. 5, fig. 2, c. — Tubu- 
* Coryne = clava = a club. 
f Gaertner, Joseph, M. D. a native of Wurtemburg, born in 1732; elected 
F. R. S. in 1761 ; died in 1791. Having visited England, he made several 
zoological discoveries on the southern coast, published in the Phil. Trans., and 
the Spicilegia Zoologica of Pallas. He is celebrated for his work “ De Fruc- 
tibus et Seminibus Plantarum.” There is an interesting biographical sketch of 
him in Thomson’s History of the Royal Society , p. 46-7. 
