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Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean ...

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8P0NGIIDA. 449show to greater advantage, that <strong>the</strong> stag's-horn-like branches anastomoseand <strong>in</strong>osculate very freely with each o<strong>the</strong>r, form<strong>in</strong>g a numberof deep angular cells, open above and below, and more or less at <strong>the</strong>sides also, ow<strong>in</strong>g to <strong>the</strong> fenestne left between <strong>the</strong> branches. TheAustralian specimens mostly exceed Bowerbank's type <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong>irdimensi<strong>on</strong>s: <strong>the</strong> largest measures 110 millim. (4|^ <strong>in</strong>ches) by 115millim. (44- <strong>in</strong>ches) <strong>in</strong> extreme height and breadth respectively ; it isformed of three ma<strong>in</strong> lobes which arise from a comm<strong>on</strong> base andunite towards <strong>the</strong> summit of <strong>the</strong> sp<strong>on</strong>ge.The measurements of <strong>the</strong> spicules are given, as Bowerbank hftsnot figured <strong>the</strong>m :—

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