 | British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology, John Edward Gray - Corals - 1870 - 64 pages
...Naturw. u. Med. 1861, p. 165. Hab. North Sea; Setubal (Prof. EP Wright); England (Johnson). " Trunk large, arborescent, branching in a dichotomous manner,...Fundy, in deep waters ; Northern Seas of Europe." — Vevrill, Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. ip 9. 67. THOUARELLA. Coral simple, with long, simple, filiform... | |
 | Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh - Natural history - 1909 - 402 pages
...whorls or spirals, are closely crowded, and cannot be spoken of as scattered. Verrill also says that " the cells are capable of moving in different directions, but in preserved specimens are generally turned downwards." As already noted, we cannot believe in much mobility of the polypcalyces. Gray's description... | |
 | Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh - Natural history - 1909 - 414 pages
...whorls or spirals, are closely crowded, and cannot be spoken of as scattered. Verrill also says that " the cells are capable of moving in different directions, but in preserved specimens are generally turned downwards." As already noted, we cannot believe in much mobility of the polypcalyces. Gray's description... | |
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Trank large, arborescent, branching in a dichotomous manner, often very thick and stony near the base ; branchlets round, tapering to slender flexible points. Cells large, campanulate, irregularly scattered ; the cells are capable of moving in different... 