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Of the Oceulinse, the animal is unknown, hut is contained m 
1- Vertical position. 
Fig. 67. Flabellum pavoninum (Lesson). 
2. Upper edge, with its plates and median thread. 
3. Form of the animal. 
Aguiar round radiated cells, more or less prominent, and scattered on 
tile surface of a solid, com- 
bat, fixed tree-like polypier. 
Tte individuals dispose tkem- 
Se lves in ascending spiral 
lines, and appear to be re- 
gularly dispersed on the sur- 
face of the several branches. 
The typical species, 0. vir- 
yinea, formerly known as 
the White Coral, although it 
differs widely in reality from 
Ihe true Coral, both in its 
structure and by its star-like 
Polypiferous cells (Fig. 68), 
is found in the Mediterranean 
a ud also in the equatorial 
seas. Over the specimen we 
See (2) a portion of a branch 
Magnified, in order that 
iiae reader may appreciate 
numerically the form of , 
„ Fig. 68. Occulina virgilrca (Lamarck). 
polype over its cells. 
The species formerly named OcctdiniiflcibdliJoTniis, and which now 
