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English: Plate 1 of J.S. Bowerbanks "Contributions to a General History of the Spongiadae. Part IV"

Geodia Flemingii
Fig.1 represents the type specimen based on a mass of Nullipora and sand, natural size, exhibiting a portion of the irregular groups of socula.
Fig.2 A view of the reverse of fig. 1, exhibiting a section of the sponge anits hollow interior.
Fig. 3. A fully developed attenuato-expando-ternate bifurcated connecting spiculum magnified 80 linear.

Fig. 4. One of the recurvo-ternate spicula, magnified 80 linear. The greater number of these spicula have their shafts very uch longer than the one represented.