Catalogue of lithophytes or stony corals in the collection of the British Museum . Acabaria divaricata. 32. MOlSELLA. 9 31. ANICELLA. Coral fan-like, dichotomously branched; branches separate, diva-ricating in the same plane, arising from the short rather sunkenjoints. Bark thin, hard, smooth, longitudinally grooved. Cellsminute, subeylindrical, short, produced in a narrow alternating serieson each edge of the branches and branchlets. Axis calcareous,solid, with longitudinal grooves; internodes very short, contracted,cork-hke. Anicella, Gray, Ami. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. 1868, ii. p. ? Like
Catalogue of lithophytes or stony corals in the collection of the British Museum . Acabaria divaricata. 32. MOlSELLA. 9 31. ANICELLA. Coral fan-like, dichotomously branched; branches separate, diva-ricating in the same plane, arising from the short rather sunkenjoints. Bark thin, hard, smooth, longitudinally grooved. Cellsminute, subeylindrical, short, produced in a narrow alternating serieson each edge of the branches and branchlets. Axis calcareous,solid, with longitudinal grooves; internodes very short, contracted,cork-hke. Anicella, Gray, Ami. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. 1868, ii. p. ? Like Melithcea, but the polype-cells small, prominent, and in asingle lateral series. It agrees with Mopsea in the joints being short and contracted ;but they are cork-hke, as in the younger branches of MeliteUa, andhorny. 81. Anicella australis. Coral red, growing in one plane ; the stem distinctly jointed ; thebranchlets slender, with the joints very inconspicuous. Anicella australis, Gray, Ann. 4 Mag. Nat. Hist. 1868, ii. p. 445, f. 4. Hah. Port Essington (Jukes). Fig. Anicella australis. II. Coral eredi shi-ub-like, tree-like, dichotomously branched ; branches diverging fromthe swollen spongy joints. Axis articulated ; segments elongated, 10 MOPSELLADJi:, stony, with short swollen hard and porous joints. Base of the axise?^panded, discoid, not stellate, lobed. Bark permanent, granular,with scattered spicula. Cells prominent on all sides of the branch-lets, and scattered on the branches. Mopsella, Gray, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 284, 1859, p. 486. I am unable to find any generic difference between M. dicfiotoma,which is the type of Mopsella, Gray, and those subsequently referredby him to the genus Melitella; and I have, therefore, united the twogenera.— Verrill. 82. Mopsella dichotoma. Coral branched, dichotomous, filiform, diffused, smooth, striated ;iuternodes short, swollen, reddish. Hippuris coralloides cornea, Petiver, Gaz. t. 3. f. 10 (wit
Size: 1186px × 2107px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, bookidcatalogueofl, bookyear1870
