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Z. ASCIDIGIDA. 
Notamia. 
Nevvc. Soc. ii. 262 — Crisia loriculata, Corail. 61.- Loricaria europsea, 
Lamour. Zooph. 7.- Notamia loriculata, Flem. Br. Anim. 541. Farre 
in Phil. Trans, an. 1837, 413, pi. 27, fig. 6-9. Gemicellaria loriculata, ; 
Blainv. Actinol. 461, pi. 78, fig. 4. 
Hab. “ A few fathoms beyond low water-mark,” common on all our 
coast. 
Polypidom attached by capillary roots, from 2 to 4 inches long, 
very bushy, “ in cupressi formam elongata,” greyish-white, flaccid 
even when dry ; the branches close, erect, dichotomous, filiform, con- 
sisting of a series of paired cells divided by a simple joint. Cells 
adnate, smooth, obliquely truncated, placed back to back, so that the 
pair together resemble a coat of mail, or pair of stays ; and the en- 
trances of the cells look like the places for the arms to come out at.” 
Ellis. The Polypes have 10 tentacula : they have no gizzard, but 
in other respects the alimentary canal presents the usual details. 
Farre. 
2. N. ? bursaria, cells compressed , keel-shaped , 66 with a little 
tube, swellinq at top like a tobacco-pipe , that appears to come out 
of them." Ellis. 
Sbepherd’s-purse Coralline, Ellis, Corail. 41, no. 8, pi. 22, fig. a, A 
Sertularia bursaria, Lin. Syst. 1314. Turt. Gmel. iv. 684. Berk. Syn. 
i. 219. Stew. Elem. ii. 447. S. Bursa, Turt. Brit. Faun. 216 
Cellularia bursaria, Pall. Elench. 65. Ellis in Phil. Trans, lvii. 437, pi. 
19, fig- 12 Cellaria Bursaria, Ellis and Soland. Zooph. 25. Bose, 
Vers, iii. 134. Lam. Anim. s. Vert. ii. 140. 2de edit. ii. 189.- Dy~ 
namena bursaria, Corall. 79. Blainv. Actinol 483. Notamia bursa- 
ria, Flem. Brit. Anim. 541. Gemicellaria bursaria, Blainv. Actino- 
log. 461. 
Hab. Parasitical on sea-weeds, very rare. “ Mare anglicum, in 
cujus fucis crescit parasitica,” Fallas. 
u This most beautiful pearl- coloured Coralline adheres by small 
tubes to fucus’s, from whence it changes into flat cells; each single 
cell like the bracket of a shelf, broad at top, and narrow at bottom : 
these are placed back to back in pairs, one above another, on an ex- 
tremely slender tube, that seems to run through the middle of the 
branches of the whole coralline. The cells are open at top. Some 
of them have black spots in them : And from the top of many of 
them, a figure seems to issue out like a short tobacco-pipe ; the small 
end of which seems to be inserted in the tube that passes through the 
middle of the whole. 
“ The cells in pairs are thought by some to have the appearance 
of the small pods of the Shepherd’s Purse : By others, the shape of 
the seed-vessels of the herb Veronica or Speedwell.” Ellis. 
