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/ fh« raotub, as in the Alcyonium. According to Dr. 
M,- L t0n ’ S P ix fi 5 ures tl,e ova united into a bead-like string, 
«i. c “j from their manner of formation is impossible. In 
j| ls respect also, the figure of the reproduction of the 
^.Jdroida; given by Jones in his “ Outlines of the Animal 
'jjftdom” is erroneous. 
though this order can boast hut of very few native spe- 
j i ' es > yet further observations will probably lind that several 
been confounded under one name, 
j, ft h as been remarked above that no specimen of the 
a Qnly of Pennatulidce, or Scapens has yet been found in our 
j ) eas 5 as however an instance lias occured in Devonshire, I 
e te add the family and generic characters to enable ob- 
^ r »ers on the different parts of our shores, to detect them if 
y should be taken. 
PENNATULID/E. 
‘Polype-mass free, pennated, carnous, the skin spiculiferons ; 
, ls bony, simple continuous : Polypes arranged along the mar- 
fts °f the pinnae.” 
q PENNATULA. 
ert eri c Character: “ Polype-mass free, plummts, the shaft 
s u6- cylindrical , naked beneath, pennated above ; pinnae two- 
7(t nkcd, spreading, fattened, und polypiferous along the upper 
r,l orgt n ” 
q V1RGULARIA. 
?* enc Character ; Polype-mass free, linear-elongate, sup- 
t J °' Ung, towards the upper extremity, sessile lunate lobes em- 
7 ocing the stem obliquely, and bearing a roiv of cells on their 
”*0 rgins .” 
j, GORGONIADAS. 
thiJ'^P e-mass fixed, arborescent, the axis covered with a 
o v k cr etacco-gelatiuous eelluliferous crust; polypes scattered 
r the whole surface. Johnston. 
Q GORGONIA. Liunanis. 
ecte Character: Polype-mass rooted, arborescent, con- 
sttng of a central brown horny axis, with an external 
^ e *low fleshy crust, warty, bearing the polype cells. 
b ^TED SEA FAN. G. Placomus. “ Irregularly 
a a . no ued, the branches disposed in a dichotomous order 
. a flattish form, cylindrical, warty ; cells protuberant, 
Uical, surrounded at top by little spines.” Ellis. PI. 12, 
2. 
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i , g rle( f Sea Fan, Ellis’ Coral., p. f!7, no. 1, pi. 27, figs, a A, 
K • Gorgonia placomus, Ellis and Solander’s Zooph., 
>>' 4‘in ^' ur f° n ’ s Irin., vol. 4, p. G45. Stewart’s Elem., vol. 2, 
• Fleming’s Brit. An., p. 512. Johnston's Brit. 
J °°Ph., 
[». 183, pi. 25, fig. 2. 
