Sertularia. 
Z. HYDROIDA. 
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Wait till they land, and you shall then behold 
The fiery sparks those tangled fronds infold, 
Myriads of living points ; th’ unaided eye 
Can but the fire, and not the form descry.” — Crabbe. 
7. S. Evansii, cc has opposite branches , and short denticles 
placed opposite to each other ; the ovaries are lobated , and arise 
from opposite branches , which proceed from the creeping adher- 
ing tube” Mr John Evans.* 
Sertularia Evansii, Ellis and Soland. Zooph. 58. Turt. Gmel. iv, 681. 
Bose, Vers, iii, 115. Lam . Anim. s. Vert. 2de edit, ii, 154* Turt. Brit. 
Faun. 215. Stew. Elem. ii, 445 Dynamena Evansii, Lamour. Cor. 
Flex. 177. Corallina, 78. Flem. Brit Anim. 545 La D. d’Evan, 
Blainv. lib. cit. 484. 
Hob. “ Among- some sea productions brought from Yarmouth, in 
Norfolk, in the year 1767,” Ellis. 
“ This coralline is about two inches high, very slender, and of a 
bright yellow colour. It creeps on fucus’s. The ovaries differ from 
all the rest of the genus : they are lobated, and the lobes are placed 
opposite to one another : these appear to be full of spawn, of a deep 
orange colour, which is sent forth from holes at the end of the lobes.” 
Ellis . 
8. S. pinnata, cells opposite , tubular , the upper part free and 
divergent , with an even patulous aperture ; vesicles obconical , tri- 
tuberculate on the top. Pallas.f 
Plate IX. Fig. 5, 6. 
Sertularia pinnata, Pall. Elench. 136 S. fuscescens, Turt. Gmel. iv. 
677- Turt. Brit. Faun. 213. Stew. Elem. ii, 442. Lamour. Cor. 
Flex. 195. Corallina, 85. Bose, Vers, iii, 107 Dynamena pinnata, 
Flem. Brit. Anim. 545. Dyn. tubiformis ? Lamour. Soland. Zooph. 12, 
pi. 66, fig. 6, 7 La D. brunatre, Blainv. Actinol. 483. 
Hab. “ Oceanus ad Prom. Lacertae, Cornubise,” Pallas. “ On 
oyster-beds, common,” Fleming. Frith of Forth, plentifully, Dtf 
Coldstream. 
Polypidom attached by tortuous tubular fibres, between two and 
three inches in height, pinnated with alternate branches, of a blackish 
or dusky horn colour, with a slight gloss on the surface, rather rigid 
* Ellis calls him “ a sea-officer in the East India Company’s service.” Pro- 
bably the same Mr E., a surgeon, whom Petiver mentions amongst the contri- 
butors to his museum. 
f Peter Simon Pallas, M. D. born at Berlin, Sept. 22, 1741 : elected F. R. S. 
in 1764 : died Sept. 8, 181 1. See Brewster’s Edin. Encyclop. xvi, 278 ; Clarke’s 
Travels, i, 458, &c. Pennant’s Literary Life, p. 7 ; but above all Cuvier’s Me- 
moir in Edin. New Phil. Journ. iv. p. 21 1, &c. 
