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proved,'’ says Dr. Johnston, “ by the ribs being continued beyond or 
round the point of attachment.” The specimen here described was 
dredged alive, and Professor Forbes says of it that “ it is a most inter- 
esting and beautiful species, the more so as it is certainly identical with 
Defiance's Turbinolia melletiana, found in both the crag formations. 
The CaryophiUim (Lamarck), from icapva, a nut, and <pvK\ov, a leaf, 
We the polvpier permanently fixed, simple, striated longitudinally, and 
the summit hollowed into a lamellated star-like cup ; the animal, actinia- 
like, is provided with a simple, or double crown of tentacula, project- 
ing from the surface of star-like, cylindrical, cone-shaped cells. In Cl 
Fig. 06. Curyophillia cyathus (Lamarck; 
e yathus (Lamarck) (Fig. 66), which inhabits the Mediterranean, the 
P°lypes are of a greyish colour, the tentacula streaked with black. The 
poly pier i s erect and upright, sometimes cylindrical, and generally so 
hrrnly attached to the rock as to seem a part of it. The lamellae are 
°t three kinds : one large and prominent, between every pair of which 
ihere are three, sometimes five, smaller ones, the centre one being 
divided into two portions forming an inner series. The lamellae are 
a rclied entire and striated on the sides, whence the margin appears some- 
what crenelated. “ It is found,” says Mr. Couch, “ of all sizes, from 
a mere speck to an inch in height. In a very young state, it is some- 
times found parasitical on Alcyonium digitatum, on shells, and on the 
stalks of seaweeds ; but as these substances are very perishable, and 
