Catalogue of Lithophytes Or Stony Corals in the Collection of the British Museum |
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alternate anastomosing Anicella Antilles articulations Axis calcareous B.M. Coral Bark formed Bark granular Bark thin Bark white base BEBRYCE branches and branchlets Bull calcareous joints CALLIGORGIA Clathraria coccinea Coenenchyma Comp Coral branched Coral fan-like Coral fan-shaped Coral simple Coral tree-like Corallium Dana dichotomous divaricated diverging du Mus Duchass edge Ehrenb Ellisella elongata Esper expanded flabellum Flex forked furcately branched Gorgonella Gorgonia Gray Guadaloupe Haime hippuris Hist horny inches inosculating internodes irregularly Isidella Isis joints elongate Junceella Kölliker Lamk Lamx lateral groove lateral line LITHOPHYTES longitudinally mammæ Melitella Melithæa Mém Michel Milne-Edw Mopsea Mopsella Myura ochracea Pallas Papillæ pinnate plane Polype-cells polypes Polypiferous cells Primnoa Primnoella RETICELLA Riisea scattered Schweigger Scirpearia sides smooth Solander & Ellis solid spicules spongy stem and branches STENELLA stony joints striated subcylindrical Suppl swollen Thesea thick umbraculum Valenc Verrill Verrucella verticillaris whorls yellow Zool Zooph
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Page 2 - Coral tree-like, or expanded, fixed by an expanded base, supported by more or less abundant fusiform calcareous spicula, and often supported by a central calcareous or horny tree-like axis, with an expanded base. Living attached by the base of the coral and axis to rocks on the sea shore.
Page 24 - Histoire Naturelle du Corail ; organisation, reproduction, peche en Algerie, industrie et commerce.
Page 14 - Coral irregularly branching, nearly on a plane. The axis consists alternately of calcareous and suberous segments, of uniform thickness, traversed by numerous narrow sulcations. The branches originate from the calcareous segments. Coenenchyma [bark] persistent, rather thin, somewhat membranous, with a rough surface.
Page 23 - CORALLID^E. Axis inarticulate, solid, calcareous, more or less hard and stony. Bark smooth, granular, with irregular-shaped calcareous spicula. Polypiferous cells simple, more or less exserted. The chemical character of the axis may be easily discovered by a small quantity of muriatic acid.
Page 38 - Coral slender (simple or subsimple), rod-like. Axis slender, cylindrical, hair-like, solid, white, calcareous, attached by a broad base. Bark (when dry) thin, smooth, granular, with a series of subcylindrical polypiferous cells placed alternately on each side of the stem. Lateral groove indistinct.
Page 46 - ... irregularly scattered." But in our specimen the branching is only irregularly dichotomous, the branches do not taper to slender points, and the cells, though not in 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.
Page 26 - Coral simple or furcately branched ; branches subcylindrical, with a more or less distinct lateral groove, especially at the base. Axis continuous, opake, solid, calcareous, hard at the base, white and softer above. Bark when dry granular, thin, with numerous series of sunken or slightly prominent polypiferous cells on each edge of the stems and branches.
Page 43 - Calyptrojihura japonica. of the cell and wide at the other end ; the lower surface of the outer aperture is furnished with two elongated horn-like processes. To the centre of this basal cone is articulated or affixed a similar pellucid horn-coloured cone or rather conical vase, which is furnished with a slightly keeled edge at its widest part, and then contracts as if it had a shorter conical lid, with an aperture in the middle of this lid-like contracted part for the emission of the polype. The...
Page 43 - ... the cell and wide at the other end ; the lower surface of the outer aperture is furnished with two elongated horn-like processes. To the centre of this basal cone is articulated or affixed a similar pellucid horn-coloured cone or rather conical vase, which is furnished with a slightly keeled edge at its widest part, and then contracts as if it had a shorter conical lid, with an aperture in the middle of this lid-like contracted part for the emission of the polype. The two cones are as it were...