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picked tip in Mount’s bay after a storm.” Most probably 
was foreign, for I have not heard of another specimen ba r ' 
ing been taken, and this was dead when found. It has b <;r . 
found near Leith by the late Mr. Mackay, and Mr. ^ e *. ’ 
according to Dr. Fleming who saw the specimen, and says 
had the appearance of being fresh and recent. 
ALCYONIDA5. 
Polype-mass fixed, coriaceous or somewhat carnous 
out any distinct axis, but strengthened by variously dispos‘d 
calcareous or siliceous spicula ; polype cells sub-cutaneoU^ 
scattered over the surface like stars. 
ALCYONIUM. Linnaeus. 
Generic Character: Polype-mass lobed, or incrusting, sp° B . 
gious, the skin coriaceous, marked with star-shaped por e ~] 
Interior gelatinous, netted with tubular fibres and P 01 ^ 
rated with longitudinal canals, terminating in the polyl^ 
cells, which are sub-cutaneous and scattered : PolyP 1 
exsertile. 
TEATS, OR DEADMAN’S HAND. Alcyonium Dig ^ 
turn. Polype-mass lobed or encrusting, of a fleshy spo D ^j 
nature, flesh coloured, wrinkled, marked with star-shap L 
pores even with the surface. PI. 13, fig. 1. 
Alcyonium ramoso-digitatum molle, astericis undiqns^ 
ornatum. Raii, Synop., vol. 1. p. 31, no. 1. Deadffl aB ' 
Hand, or Deadman’s Toes, Ellis’ Coral., p. 83, no. 2, P>- "'I 
fig. a A. Alcyonium Manus Marina, Blumcnbach, by G° { 
Lobularia digitata, Fleming’s Brit. An., p. 515. Alcyoni 1 ^ 
digitatum, Ellis and Solander’s Zooph., p. 175, pi. 1, j„ 
of the polype. Turton’s Lin,, vol. 4, p. 052. Templeton 
Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 9, p. 470. Harvey in Mag. Nat. H 1 ® ' 
vol. 1, new series, p. 475, figs. 56 and 57 (unlike). , a - 
ston’s Brit. Zoopb., p. 188, pis. xxvi and xxvi*. Al. Lo ‘ ( j 
turn, Lamouroux’s Cor. Flex., p. 33(5, pi. xii., fig. 4 9 ( | 
pi. xiv. Lobularia Digitata, Roget’s Bridgewater 
vol. 1 p. 102, fig. 50. 
fig. 5. 
Jones’ Outlines of An. King., P' 
llab. Abundant on shells and stones from deep 
t ef' 
Polperro, Goran, Fowey, Mevagissey, Whitsand bay, 
This is a very common production on all parts of 0 
shores, at all depths, and varies in height from a thin ' uC ' otf r 
tation to ten inches. It is most familiarly known 1° 
fishermen when it occurs as large, tabulated, fleshy n*® s t j( 
of an orange colour, attached to stones and shells. jj S lr 
occurs under a variety of forms, to each of which the ^ 
eriuen give a distinctive name. In its early stages it a PP. [)( .Jj 
as a thin yellow incrustation of about the eighth of a® 
