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uncommon to find long slender ciliated tendrils protruding 10 
pairs from different parts of its surface. On examination) 
however, these are found to belong to a minute and beautim* 
worm,* and which forms its tubes in the crevices or fissures, 
and sometimes on the surface. It would not be safe however 
to make the presence or absence of a polype an essentia 1 
qualification for the animal or vegetable kingdoms. By 
doing the Clustering Polype of Ellis and the sponges would 
be included among vegetables; the former of which and most 
of the latter are I think undoubtedly animal. From all that 
I have observed of them I am inclined to think they 
situated on the vegetable side of the line which may supposed 
to divide the two kingdoms. 
Though they arc given up by Zoologists, yet the Botanist 
will not receive them, and thus they may be said to hover 
between the two kingdoms. Mr. Harvey has not include® 
them in his manual of British Algas, and Professor Gralian', 
according to Dr. Johnston, says : “ Let Zoologists keep th el ® 
cryplogamia, the vegetable kingdom has more than enough- 
As, howfcver, they are few in number, and have been classed 
among tbe zoophytes by many systematists they are her® 
added as a supplement to the foregoing genera. 
In character they arc encrusting, or arborescent, calcareous > 
articulated or massive ; the surface in a recent state covef e 
with minute pores, which disappear in drying : no polype. 
JANIA, 
Generic Character : Arborescent, jointed; the joints c} - *' 0 * 
drical, dichotomously branched ; the branches filiform. 
REDDISH HAIR-LIKE CORALLINE. Jania Ruben'-* 
(var. A.) Calcareous, jointed, arborescent; lower joi° 
simple, cylindrical, about four times as long as thic®' 
nearly of equal thickness throughout: branches comm® 0 ’ 
terminating in bifid extremities, sometimes knobular. 
Reddish Hair-like Coralline, Ellis’ Coral., p. 50, no 
5 , 
dll ■"lint, vui amuC) juii in vui t*i«j l /» ut/| , 
pi. 24, fig. e E. Corallina rubens, Turton’s Lin., vol. ' 
p. 672. Stewart’s Elem., vol. 2, p. 439. Ellis and Sol®.® 
der’s Zoopli., p. 123, no. 28. Jania rubens, Fleming’s 
An., p. 514. Templeton in Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 9, p- ' 
Lamouroux’s Cor. Flex., p. 272. Bellamy’s Nat. 
South Devon, p. 267. Johnston’s Brit. Cor., p. 224, pi- 
This delicate coralline is abundantly found on almost 9 
our beaches, of a white colour, from being washed on sl>o ^ 
and alternately being covered with the sea, and again * e 1 ,J 
the influence of the sun. When living, it is either of R ft 
* Leucodore Ciliatua. 
