Receptaculite fossil

"A restoration of the rare Receptaculite resting on a pedicle, if it was so attached to the sea bottom. A Receptaculite is by some authors classed as a coral. (A) a branchy coral; (B) enlarged, and "budding"; (C) greatly enlarged and showing polyps restored as though living to right, in the flowering stage in the center of the branch a bud just beginning as a tubercle, next to it one farther advanced, and at the extreme left, a bud just breaking into flower. (D) the mushroom with the 'engine turned top'--as it is locally called. It is a Receptaculite and belongs to the sponge family, says the Smithsonian Institution. (F) a present day living "sea anenome. (G) three forms of sparsely branched graptolite colonies-- (H) foraminifer, or a borer, with holes pitted in its surface. (E) greatly enlarged pestules or papilla of Receptaculite, enlarged about 32 times (J) a modern Medussa, a jellyfish of which Walcott found casts preserved as fossils