. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. 26 c, Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918 The specimen described above and figured by me, from Hudson bay, seems to agree best with the typical form from off Newfoundland in 290 meters. I have not seen many specimens from the Fishing Banks. It is known from Baffin bay, 358 meters; Davis sound, 61 meters ; Greenland, 70 to meters. It has a wide distribution in the Arctic ocean, and is probably circumpolar. It is common in the Kara sea. In depth it ranges from 10 to 1,300 fathoms. Gersemia mirabilis (Dan.) Molande
. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. 26 c, Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918 The specimen described above and figured by me, from Hudson bay, seems to agree best with the typical form from off Newfoundland in 290 meters. I have not seen many specimens from the Fishing Banks. It is known from Baffin bay, 358 meters; Davis sound, 61 meters ; Greenland, 70 to meters. It has a wide distribution in the Arctic ocean, and is probably circumpolar. It is common in the Kara sea. In depth it ranges from 10 to 1,300 fathoms. Gersemia mirabilis (Dan.) Molander. Varingia mii-ahilis Danielssen, op. cit., pp. 1-8, pi. I, figs. 1-40; pi. II, figs. 1-2, 1887. Varingia arborea Jungeksen, op. cit., p. 375, pi. XXXIII, figs. 1-12, 1887. Exinephthya mirabilis , op. cit., p. 345, 1907; Alcyon. Sibir. Eism., p. 5, 1909. Einiephthya Jruticosa Jungersen (pars), op. cit., p. 11, 191G. Gersemia niirabtlis ]\Iolander, op. cit., p. 48, text cut 12, p. 69, pi. I, fig. 10, 1915. Plate V; Fig. 5 (spicules). Text Fig. 4. This is a large luxuriant species (or variety) closely related to G. Jruticosa, to which Jungersen, in his later works, has united it. But Kukenthal and ;\Iolander, who have apparently had abundant materials, have kept it separate. It is a common form near or on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, where it sometimes becomes 150 to 200 mm. high. Its spiculation is distinctly unlike that of varieties of G. jruticosa that I have seen. Therefore I am led to keep it distinct, for our numerous specimens are not now available for reexamination. It has a large stout trunk, when well grown, which branches arborescently from near the base, giving off large liranches with naked stalks; these in turn give off secondary and often tertiary branchlets, which bear clusters of few or numerous elongated polyps, both laterally and terminally. These seem incapable of complete retraction. The anthocodia and the more or less curled up tentacles rema
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