12 
ark* 
Hob. On sea weed and old shells, about low water roa 
Gorran Haven, common; Polperro, rather rare; Talk 1 
sand-bay, and Looe. I 
This species is gregarious in its habit, growing on fuci a !° 
attaining the height of two to eight Ikies. It is attache^ - 
a narrow base; in young specimens, the appearance is 1 
that of a common hydra, with the tentacula irrogm 3 • 
arranged on various parts of the body , in older specm ' 
the base is prolonged into a narrow footstalk, with , 
tentacula at the summit. The tentacula are filiform 
vary from five to twenty in number. The colour is re<J°‘ 
with occasionally deeper spots about the tentacula and b» 
It is sometimes found on the under surface of stones wh l 
low water mark. 
HERMIA, Johnston. 
Generic Character: Polype fixed, sheathed in a thin b° r jj' 
membrane, clavate or branched and subphytoidal, 
apices of the branches clubbed, and furnished with & 
tered glandular tentacula; uo mouth. 
H. GLANDULOSA. The branches in pairs, and the j* 
tacula shorter than the enlarged heads of the brand* 
Tubnlaria Coryna, Turton’s Linnmus, vol. 4, page 6 g 
P* 
lUUlliana - — ' ' 
Stewart’s Elements of Natural History, vol. 2, 
Coryne Glandulosa, Fleming’s Brit. An., p. 553. John 
.to 0 
Her-’J 
Be - a 
in Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 5, p. 631, fig. 110 
Glandulosa, Johnston’s British Zoophytes, p. Ill, 
page 109, and pi. 4, figs. L and 2. 
Hah. Found under stones about low water mark 
sheltered situations; not uncommon. Polperro, Go r 
Whitsand-bay. g d 
These polypes have a very singular appearance. The » ^ 
is large and irregular, and along its sides the tentacula 5 J, 
out in an irregular manner. The tentacula are club 
with a rounded extremity. Inferiorly the pulp is end , s 
in a horny membranous sheath, but the polype-" r 
and neck are naked or covered with but a very slight 
tinuation of the horny envelope. In its actions it |S .,1s* 
sluggish ; but it has a power of moving each of the tcp 1 * js 
independent of the others or all together. The polyp 10 , s iy 
confervoid, horny, wrinkled and somewhat dichotou fl# t 
branched, and varies in height to about an inch. It ‘ o|)1 lr 
very uncommon in particular localities throughout our ' r »0’ 
ern shores. As at Giggen, Polperro ; Vault-beach, t b« 
and in particular spots in Whitsand-bay. It prefer 
under surface of stones about low water mark; and 
between tide marks in sheltered situations where smm 
abound. 
