Notes on the Radiata in the Museum of Yale College Volume 2; With Descriptions of New Genera and Species - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1868 Excerpt: ... The longer spicula are-144mm by-042,-132 by-054,-120 by-054,-108 by-048; stouter ones-114 by-054,-084 by-048,-072 by-054; polypspicula-180 by-036,-144 by-030,-114 by-024. Pearl Islands, Bay of Panama,--F. II. Bradley; Gulf of Nicoya, by divers, larger,--J. A. McNiel. Readily distinguished by its lax branches, and distant, slender, flattened branchlets, serrated by the distant, uniserial verruca. Leptogorgia Califomica Verrill, sp. nov. (litigorgia California, 1st Ed.). Plate V, figure 10. Corallum somewhat flabelliform, low, subpinnately branched, the branchlets ascending, not coalescent. The branchlets are nearly round and usually curve outward at first. They are from 1 to 2 inches long, before branching, and from-08 to-10 thick. Cells flat, scarcely rising above the general surface, arranged in about three rows along each side of the branchlets. The apertures in contraction often appear stellate. The naked median region is quite narrow. Color reddish purple, often with a narrow yellow streak along the centre of the median space. Height 4 to 6 inches. The spicula are mostly reddish purple, some are half yellow, others entirely so. The longer double-spindles are slender, scarcely acute, with a wide median space, which is bordered by two whorls of large, rough, distant warts. Close to each end and distant from the preceding, there is a much smaller whorl of small warts, while the ends terminate with two or three similar small warts. Stouter double-spindles thick and blunt, with two wreaths of warts on each end, closely crowded together, those next the narrow median space much the largest. Polyp-spicula slender, light yellow, with few, small, distant papillse. Compound cross-shaped spicula occasionally occur, which have short blunt rays, with rough, irregular...

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