Report of the Commissioner - United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries . No. 605 No. 610 EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXXVIII. Figure 282.—Hybocodon prolifer, (p. 736;) natural size, the bead seen from the backside. 283.—Alcyonium carneuni, (p. 737;) tbree of the polyps fully expanded, muchenlarged. 284.—Sagartia leucolena, (p. 738;) natural size, in expansion, but the tentaclesare not fully extended; the * indicates the long odd tentacle. 285.—Halocampa producta, (p. 738;) natural size, well expanded, but the bodymay be much more elongated. 286.—Epizoanthus Americanus, (p. 740;) a colony which h
Report of the Commissioner - United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries . No. 605 No. 610 EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXXVIII. Figure 282.—Hybocodon prolifer, (p. 736;) natural size, the bead seen from the backside. 283.—Alcyonium carneuni, (p. 737;) tbree of the polyps fully expanded, muchenlarged. 284.—Sagartia leucolena, (p. 738;) natural size, in expansion, but the tentaclesare not fully extended; the * indicates the long odd tentacle. 285.—Halocampa producta, (p. 738;) natural size, well expanded, but the bodymay be much more elongated. 286.—Epizoanthus Americanus, (p. 740;) a colony which had completely cov-ered and absorbed a shell occupied by a hermit-crab, (Eupaguruspubescens,) which still lived within the cavity; the polyps are notexpanded, natural size. 287.—The same; one of the polyps in full expansion, natural size. (Figure 282 was copied from L. Agassiz; 286 is from the American ^Naturalist, drawn by E. S. Morse ;the rest were drawn by A. E. Verrill.) Plate Fig. 282. No. 598 Fig. 284.
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