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Show 554 DR. j. E. GRAY ON SPONGES. [May 9, SYNOPSIS OF FAMILIES. 1. GRANTIAD^E. Sponge tubular or massive. Outer surface hispid, covered with three-rayed spicules. 2. ALCYONCELLID^E. Sponge tubular, simple or branched. Outer surface even, tessellated. 3. APHROCERASID,E. Sponge tubular, branched. Outer surface covered with fusiform spicules, arranged longitudinally, and internally reticulated. Fam. 1. GRANTIADJE. Sponge tubular or massive, pierced with a tubular cloaca. Outer surface strengthened with three-rayed spicules. * Sponge tubular, isolated, or clustered. 1. GRANTIA, Bowerb. B. Sp. i. p. 162. Sponge tubular, fusiform, globular or bag-like, hispid. Oscules terminal, surrounded by a single series of cilia. Spicules triradiate; rays equiangular, elongate. Grantia, sp., Fleming, B. A. (not Nardo). Sycon, Lieberkiihn, Arch, fiir Anat. 1860; O. Schmidt, S. Ad. p. 13; Supp. i. p. 22, 1862. GRANTIA CILIATA, Fleming, B. A.; Johnston; Bowerb. B. S. p. 176, t. 20. f. 45, t. 21. f. 6, 7, 345, 346 a. B.M. Spongia ciliata, Fab. S. panicea, Esper, t. 18. Grantia pulverulenta, Johnston, B. S. p. 180. B.M. Spongia coronata, Ellis & Solander, Zooph. t. 58. f. 9. Calcispongia ciliata et C. pulverulenta, Blainv. Man. Act. Scypha coronata et S. ovata, Gray, B. Plants, i. p. 357. Spongia inflata, Delle Chiaje, iii. t. 37. f. 16, 17. Sycon ciliata, O. Schmidt, Sp. Ad. p. 14, t. 1. f. la. Lieberkuhnea ciliata, O. Schmidt. See also- Grantia asperum (Sycon asperum), O. Schmidt, Sp. Ad. p. 15, t. 1. f. 4, 4a; Supp. ii. t. 1. f. 5. B.M. G. humboldtii (Sycon humboldtii), O. Schmidt. G. raphanus (S. raphanus), O. Schmidt. G. setosa (S. setosus), O. Schmidt. 2. UTE, O. Schmidt, S. A. p. 16 ; Supp. p. 23. Sponge tubular, solitary, sac-shaped or fusiform, more or less pe- • dunculated. Oscules terminal, not crowned with a series of cilia. 1. UTE CAPILLOSA, O. Schmidt, S. Ad. p. 17, t. 1. f. 6. Ute glabra, O. Schmidt, Supp. i. p. 23, t. 3. f. 1. |