Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . Figure 2.—Madracis decactis CLy.) Yer. Part of the dry coral. x 2o. —The same, with the polyps expanded. x 12. forms. The animals have been described both by Pourtales andmyself and were figured bv me. (These Trans., x, pi. Ixvii, fig. 10.) A. E. Verrill—Bermudian and Wei^t Indian Beef Corals. loO The o^eiui-al color of the coral, in life, is yellow, yellowish brown,or purplish brown ; disk often purjdish, with white radii, forming astar around the mouth ; lips and tips of tentacles white. As stated by Pourtales, and figur
Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . Figure 2.—Madracis decactis CLy.) Yer. Part of the dry coral. x 2o. —The same, with the polyps expanded. x 12. forms. The animals have been described both by Pourtales andmyself and were figured bv me. (These Trans., x, pi. Ixvii, fig. 10.) A. E. Verrill—Bermudian and Wei^t Indian Beef Corals. loO The o^eiui-al color of the coral, in life, is yellow, yellowish brown,or purplish brown ; disk often purjdish, with white radii, forming astar around the mouth ; lips and tips of tentacles white. As stated by Pourtales, and figured by rae in 1900, there are threepentanierous cycles of tentacles (5, 5, 10) and two equal cycles ofsepta (5, 5). Sometimes a few rudimentary septa of the third cycleappear. One Bermuda specimen has several \gy\ large calicles, with20 to 30 regular septa. PI. xiv, tig. G. Duncan (Revision, p. 45, 1884) united Axohelia E. and H. withthis genus, under the name of Madrach. Several others have donethe same. Vaughan, however (o]). cit., pp. 5, 8), proposes
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