A history of the British sea-anemones and corals . hose of the fourthcycle wanting in half of each system. They are wide apart, being separatedby twice or thrice their own thickness, thin, salient, but unequally so,some of the primaries and secondaries rising to twice the height, above thewall, of the tertiaries, but others are more nearly equal; their planes aremore or less waved, and their surfaces set with scattered blunt eminences :upper edge truncate, nearly horizontal, but slightly declining inwai-ds, andrising with an abrupt blunt point at the inner edge, which then descendsperpendicula
A history of the British sea-anemones and corals . hose of the fourthcycle wanting in half of each system. They are wide apart, being separatedby twice or thrice their own thickness, thin, salient, but unequally so,some of the primaries and secondaries rising to twice the height, above thewall, of the tertiaries, but others are more nearly equal; their planes aremore or less waved, and their surfaces set with scattered blunt eminences :upper edge truncate, nearly horizontal, but slightly declining inwai-ds, andrising with an abrupt blunt point at the inner edge, which then descendsperpendicularly. Columella. A single flexuous plate, unitedbelow to the palules. Pal ides. Distinct, united to the inner edgesof the primary and secondary plates, and tosome (not all) of the tertiary : they are thick,very sinuous, their surfaces set with roundedeminences, and their upper edges much p pteropus lobed; they are united by their inner edges (corallam magnified). into an irregular horizontal platform, out of the centre of which rises 322 TURBINOLIADJi. from wall to wall -13 inch : height 05. Animal. Unknown. Moray Firth, deep water. For this very distinct and remarkable little Coral I amindebted to Mr. James Macdonald, of Elgin, who obtainedit from Lossiemouth, in October, 1858, attached to a valveof Cyprina, from the deepest part of the Moray is no other species with which it can possibly beconfounded, the expansions of the ribs presenting a verystriking character. They remind me of the immense but-tresses which surround the base of the giant Ceiba of theJamaican forests. To this feature I have alluded in thespecific name, which is formed from irrepbv, a wing, and7rou?, a foot. My friends, Messrs. Macdonald and Gregor, speak ofother Corals havins; at various times come under theirnotice, but they had always been set down, like these nowrecorded, as Caryopliyllia Smithii. It is by no mean>improbable that further research m
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