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the first series of tentacles of the usual brown colour, with 
about four faintly marked whitish specks on the inner surface. 
The second series were uniformly brown. 
Order II. Alcyonaria. 
Fam. Pennatulidas. 
Genus Pennatula, L. 
Pennatula phosphorea , L.; Johnst. Brit. Zooph. 
p. 157, fig. 35. 
Abundant on muddy ground in deep water, and often 
brought up on the lines of the fishermen. 
Genus Virgularia, Lamck. 
Virgularia mirabilis , L.; Johnst. Brit. Zooph. p. 161, pi. 30. 
Occasionally in the stomach of the cod. 
Fam. Alcyoniad®. 
Genus Alcyonium, L. 
Alcyonium digitatum , L.; Johnst. Brit. Zooph. 
p. 174, pi. 34. 
[Plate VII. figs. 8 to 12.] 
Abundant in deep water, as well as in small patches on 
rocks and stones between tide-marks. Often thrown in large 
quantities on the West Sands after storms, attached to various 
submarine structures. 
Colony of young Actinoloba dianthus. 
