FINGER-SHAPED PENNATULA. 
Generic Character. 
Body in fome fpecies pinnated, in fome entire; 
with polypes proceeding from its upper fur- 
face, and having a naked idem, furnifhed 
with an internal bone. 
Specific Character, &c. 
CYLINDRIC PENNATULA with the whole 
upper part polypiferous. 
FINGER-SHAPED SEA-PEN. 
Phil. Tranf. vol. 53. 
THE FINGER SEA-PEN. 
Soland. and Ellis's Zoophytes, p. 65. 
The Pennatulae in general are diftinguifhed by 
the peculiar feather-like formation of the upper 
part of the body, which from a flattilh midrib fends 
forth numerous lateral branches gradually lengthen¬ 
ing from the part whence they originate, till they 
arrive at the middle or broadefi: part, and horn 
thence again Ihortening towards the tip. 1 here are 
however a few fpecies which recede in point of ha¬ 
bit 
