Fig. 47. 
FAMILY XIV. ALCYONIDULiE. 
40. Alcyonidium, * Lamouroux. 
Character. Polypidom fleshy , lohed or crustaceous ; cells 
immersed , pentagonal , with flbro-corneous parietes , the aperture 
terminal , simple , contractile . -f * — Polypes ascidian. 
1. A. gelatinosum , polypidom variously lohed or branched , 
sub cylindrical or somewhat compressed , the surface smooth and 
even. Johnson. J 
Plate xli. Fig 1 . 1-3. 
Fucus spongiosus nodosus, Ger. Herb. emac. 1570, no. 10, fig. Raii . Syn. 
i. 49, no. 42. Alcyonium, seu fucus nodosus et spongiosus, Ellis 
Corall. 87. no. 5, pi 32, fig. d. D. Alcyonium ramosum molle, mul- 
tis polypis obsessum, Bart. Opusc. Subs, i, 40, tab. 1, fig. 5, A. B 
Alcyonium gelatinosum, Pall Elench. 353. Lin. Syst- 1295. Mull. 
Zool. Dan. prod. 255, no. 3082. Ellis and Soland. Zooph. 176. Turt. 
Gmel. iv. 633. Jameson in Wern. Mem. i. 563. Turt. Brit. Faun. 207- 
Stew. Elem. ii. 432. Bose, Vers, iii. 157. Flem. Brit. Anim. 517- La- 
mour. Cor. Flex. 350. Corail. 249. L Alcyon gelatineux, Blainv. Ac- 
* From Alcyonium , to which the name implies a resemblance. 
f According to Dr Farre the retractile portion of the cell, or that which con- 
stitutes the base of the polype, is composed of a series of stout short setae. 
| Johnson, Thomas, born at Selby in Yorkshire ; a Lieut. Colonel in the 
royal army during the civil wars, created M. D. Oxon, in 1643, in considera- 
tion of his loyalty and learning; killed in 1644, “ at which time his worth did 
justly challenge funeral tears ; being then no less eminent in the garrison for his 
valour and conduct as a soldier, than famous through the kingdom for his excellen- 
cy as an herbalist and Physician.” See Pulteney’s Sketches, i. p. 128. &c. 
