^C. eburnea.^ This species is found in tide-pools on algæ,
especially on the red seaweeds, growing in bushy tufts from one
half of an inch to an inch high. Calcareous, with horny joints;
cells in two rows, semi-alternate, cylindrical, free at one end,
bent; no operculum; ivory-white; ovicells large and pear-shaped.
Common from Long Island Sound northward and on the Pacific coast.
GENUS ^Tubulipora^
^T. flabellaris.^ This species is found attached to slender
branched algæ, in coral-like masses of long, crooked, tubular
cells united at the base and spreading into fan-shapes placed flat
against the fronds. It is sometimes one quarter of an inch in
diameter. On the same alga may often be found /Crisia/, /Mollia/,
and /Cellepora/. (Plate XLIX.)
GENUS ^Diastopora^
^D. patina.^ Tubular cells rise from a saucer-shaped disk about a
quarter of an inch in diameter; cells lie obliquely or stand erect,
and are crowded toward the center; margin of disk without cells;
colony white and calcareous. Found on algæ and eel-grass from Long
Island Sound northward.
SUBORDER ~CHEILOSTOMATA~
In this suborder the zoœcia are either horny or calcareous, and
the orifices are usually surrounded with spines and have opercula.
The orifices generally have raised margins, or peristomes. Ovicells
form helmet-like coverings overhanging the orifices.
GENUS ^Ætea^
^Æ. anguinea.^ Delicate, white, creeping, calcareous stems, from
which rise numerous club-shaped cells, about one eighth of an inch
high, each one with an aperture in the end. This species creeps in
wavy lines along the fronds of algæ, and is frequently found on
/Dasya/, /Griffithsia/, /Plocamium/, and eel-grass.
[Illustration: PLATE XLIX. Tubulipora flabellaris. 1, Tubulipora
flabellaris, natural size. Eucratea chelata. Cellularia ternata. 1,
Cellularia ternata, natural size.]
[Illustration: PLATE L. Caberea Ellisii. Bugula turrita. 1, Bugula
Murrayana; 2, B. Murrayana, magnified; 3, B. Murrayana, a few cells,
more highly magnified; 4, B. flabellata; 5, B. flabellata, magnified.]
GENUS ^Eucratea^
^E. chelata.^ A small, delicate species rising from a creeping
stem. It has branches composed of single rows of horn-shaped cells
having an oblique aperture on the side. Found at extreme low-water
mark on hydroids, shells, stones, and /Fucus/. (Plate XLIX.)
GENUS ^Cellularia^
^C. ternata.^ Zoarium filamentous, spreading, about one inch high,
white, calcareous, branched in a forking manner; cells long,
narrowest at base, arranged in series of three and on the same
plane, apertures oblique and facing one way; horny joint between
each cluster of cells. This species grows in deep water from Cape
Cod northward, and is found on objects washed upon the beach.
(Plate XLIX.)
GENUS ^Caberea^
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